Oren,
Just create an image of your OS disc and use that. I use both and actually
the image is easier to use.
Gerry
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, oren goren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry. I was away from my 'puter for too many hours, and my cell was too
> clumsy/small to work with.
>
> Thanks very much to all!
>
> I tried to work first-to-nth time with my cd/dvd drive, using every option
> VB provides at one time or another; often the defaults after once again
> checking the host for firewalls, WDefen der, etc..
>
> Then with a USB-3.25" drive.
>
> Both drives and all the bootables work fine for anything but the VB. And
> the several 98 boot discs all work on VMWARE, as does the 95/98 boot
> "floppy".
>
> So, if my host system is the main problem, maybe VMWARE is too dumb to
> know it. LOL.
>
> BTW, I was amazed to see that using a physical drive is more complicated
> than using an image file?
>
> Or, Grace, do you mean a physical drive separate from the host drive as
> the VB main drive?
>
> If so, I was using the host drive.
> oren
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Gerard Arthus <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> That is what I asked, whether he was using a physical device or an image.
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Tom Grace <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/07/12 02:48, oren goren wrote:
>>> > Rereading my original shows me I said it right: VB won't recognize the
>>> > DISC! Which it couldn't fail to do if it thought I had no drive set up.
>>> > Right?
>>>
>>> Are you trying to add a physical device (rather than a disk image) ?
>>> Doing that is a more involved process.
>>>
>>>
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