OT: Ubuntu and VMWare

[David Bakody]

I have (or had) the same issue.  A solution that worked for me was to 
download a bootimage disk from:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Cheers

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 10:21 -0400, amigian wrote:
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>>Unfortunetly i "need" to use some windoze apps. I now i have the option of 
>>dual booting, but i would like to stay within Ubuntu.
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>>My problem with VMWare is not VMWare itself. I have it installed and seems 
>>to be working properly. My problem is trying to install Win98SE. This 
>>version of Win98 has a boot floppy. I can start the Win98 install from the 
>>CD, but then gets to a point to reboot and asks that the boot floppy be in 
>>the drive. The catch - my machine does not have a floppy drive! Therefore 
>>the Win98 install will not reboot.
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>>Does anyone know of a way around this? If so, i would really appreciate 
>>knowing how. I would love to start using Ubuntu a lot more than i do. 
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>-- 
>>Later.
>>Marc
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>What you can do is make an ISO image of this floppy (on a machine that
>does have a floppy drive, or just plug a floppy drive temporarily on
>your machine), then you can tell VMware to use this ISO instead of using
>a real drive (that you don't have).
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>To make the ISO, I think it's just:  "dd if=/dev/fd0
>of=/where_you_want_it/fd_image.iso"
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>HTH
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>--
>Vince
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