Brian Keener wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Creating a new virtual machine, starting with the floppy, from the > > DOS-prompt I do an 'fdisk' and 'format', and then the installation > > from the CD should be started with > > > > D:\setup.exe > > > > But... the CD is not found, when entering 'D:' I get this error: > > > > Invalid drive specification > > The bootable floppy must have the CDROM drivers loaded in the > config.sys, and mscdex loading in autoexec.bat.
The floppy does contain drivers for several brands of cd readers. Since my brand, Lite-on, is not among them, and since I recall from normal installations of W95, years ago, that installing a driver only made things worse - the IDE cd reader was recognized automatically - I did not think of that. I now tried the drivers of the other brands. After a few failures, the Hitachi driver appeared to be working. and I was prompted to install W95 from the cd. Installation was successful. Thanks. > Where'd this bootable floppy you are using come from? Not all W95/W98 installation cd's were bootable. Those that were not, came with a bootable floppy, provided by the manufacturer of Windows himself. 'CD-ROM setup/startup diskette' is what it's called on its label. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
