On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> I've configured VMWare to run win98, I've set up all of my devices. I
> have a partition formatted and ready for windows, and a $5 win98 CD in
> my CDROM drive -- one of the win98 CDs from the campus computer store
> which I bought about a year ago. I'm using a Creative DXR3 which works
> fine under Linux, and I've booted off of this win98 cd before IIRC.
My "Campus Copy" of Win98 isn't bootable. If you want, I'll send you a dd
image of the Win98 setup floppy (offlist).
> So, as per someone's advice, I press F2 to load the BIOS when I power
> up the machine. The setup menu appears, and I arrow over to the boot
> devices. All of them have +'s beside them, except for my CD/DVD ROM. I
> use + to move the CD to the top, then I save my settings. But, this
> still doesn't help, and my CDROM reappears near the bottom of the list
> when I go into the BIOS again.
>
> I'm also killing the machine to power down; unfortunately when I power
> up, my mouse no longer works. Is there a keyboard command for powering down?
Killing the VM is probably why your Virtual BIOS settings don't save.
<Ctrl><Alt><Esc> releases the cursor from the VM window, so you can hit
the "Power Down" button.
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Doc Shipley
Network Support
TARL Labs, UT
Austin, Texas
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