I have found the following site useful for windows problems: http://www.petri.co.il/ You might also try the VMWare forums accessible from the VMWare support page
If you have a working installation of w2k, you should be able to modify the following instructions to roll your own bootable copy of w2k: http://www.4saad.com/WhatsNew/Fresh_XP_Install/index.htm The instructions worked as advertized for XP. I have found that installing OSes onto VMWare using real CDs to be a PITA because the drive is only indirectly connected to the VM. It goes much faster if you create an iso image of your CD and point VMWare to the iso file. Lastly, I always thought my w2k cd was bootable, but I only ever tried to install in VMWare where it didn't boot. Since it wouldn't boot in VMWare, I ended up installing w98 and then upgrading to w2k completely overwriting the w98 installation. You could probably also upgrade from w95 or even 3.1 if you can read the CD. It has been working (as well as windows can) for 15 months. I suppose it's possible there's a bug in VMWare. HTH, Good luck. Paul On Friday 03 December 2004 05:56 am, Anders Lind wrote: > Hello there, > > I am having a problem with getting VMWare running, as I try to install > Win2000 as a virtual machine in VMWare, however VMWare says that the CD I > am using is not bootable, however if I reboot normally it boots up fine, > now does anyone be able to point me to some ideas why this is so. I would > rather not have to install W2K normally so to speak. Perhaps not the right > place to ask but I'll start here and also look on VMWare's web of course. > > I run Mdk 10.0 BTW.....and no floppy either > > /Anders
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