> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:47:00 -0700, RickyTheFish
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >I've been looking through documentation for Virtual PC 2007, and pretty much
> >everything just says to create a virtual machine and voila, all your problems
> >are solved.
>
> Interesting, *where* did yo read that????
>
> >I'm trying to run a Windows 98 virtual machine on my Vista
> >installation, but when I run the virtual machine, it hangs on DHCP until it
> >finally gives me the message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert
> >Boot Media in selected Boot device." What "Boot Media" do I need?
>
> A virtual machine is behaving exactly like a physical PC when it has
> just been assembled from the various parts and boots up for the first
> time. The very first thing you need to do is to actually *install* an
> operating system on the virtual machine. Like in a physical machine
> the hard disk is completely empty at this stage...
> You can install many flavours of Windows but also OS/2 or any Linux
> distribution. VPC2007 does not supply the installation media for these
> operating systems (how could it?). That is up to you...
>
> You might have been misled by the dialogue in the Virtual machine
> Wizard that asks which operating system you want to install. This
> dialogue merely serves to inform the Wizard which hardware features
> will be needed (for example how much RAM to assign and how big a hard
> disk to suggest). In no way does it install any operating system for
> you.
>
> >I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't just pop in a Win98 boot disk.
>
> In that case you should use the virtual floppy image of the boot disk
> and capture it in the virtual machine. A virtual floppy boot disk is
> available on Steve Jain's site: http://vpc.essjae.com/
>
> This site also contain instructions on how to actually install Win98
> including some readymade files to simplify things. You still need the
> Win98 CD (pysical or as an ISO image) and the Win98 license key.
>
> >Did I miss something when I was setting up my virtual machine?
> >Any information would be appreciated.
>
> You missed the *install* of the operating system.....
>
> --
> Bo Berglund
>

>I've been looking through documentation for Virtual PC 2007, and pretty much
>everything just says to create a virtual machine and voila, all your problems
>are solved.
>I'm trying to run a Windows 98 virtual machine on my Vista
>installation, but when I run the virtual machine, it hangs on DHCP until it
>finally gives me the message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert
>Boot Media in selected Boot device." What "Boot Media" do I need?
>I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't just pop in a Win98 boot disk.
>Did I miss something when I was setting up my virtual machine?
>Any information would be appreciated.

> Is there any legal, free way to emulate an older [Windows] OS without
> needing the
> physical disk and CD-KEY?
> I've done some searching on Google to see if I can find a Windows 98
> emulator, so far with no success. Any recommendations would be
> appreciated.