Win 98SE install hang

[amigabill]

Running Virtualbox 4.0 trying to install Windows 98SE on 20GB virtual drive.

I've got a floppy image and ripped my install CD to an iso file, but am having trouble getting the setup to go. The floppy image I downloaded from somewhere, I can't use my actual floppy disk due to lack of a drive these days. My CD does not appear to be self-booting.

I've found recommendations to remove the Enable PAE/NX and the Enable VT-x/AMD-V features from Virtualbox settings, and done that.

With these features removed and RAM set to 32MB (or 16 or 64MB) and graphics mem at 4MB, the floppy doesn't complete bootup. It shows the with CD or without CD options, the timer counts down, and it will begin doing something with CD selected, but this is everything I see:

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Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu
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  1. Start computer with CD-ROM support.
  2. Start computer without CD-ROM support.
  3. View the Help file.

Enter a choice:  1     Time remaining: 00


This driver is provided by Oak Technology, Inc..
OTI-91X ATAPI CD-ROM device driver, Rev D91XV352
(C)Copyright Oak Technology Inc.  1987-1997

AIC-6260/6360/6370 ASPI Manager for DOS
Version 3.68S
Copyright 1990-1997 Adaptec, Inc.

And it stops there forever.

If I add the Enable VT-x/AMD-V feature (with or without the nesting paging selected), then the floppy finishes booting, I can run fdisk, and setup begins and runs for a while until dieing with the Standard Mode Fault error. Which removing the VT-x/AMD-V feature is supposed to fix, but without that I can't get to an A: prompt due to floppy boot hang.

Any suggestions?

[amigabill]

Replying to myself...

I have my 98se installing into virtualbox now, hopefully it'll work to completion and run as a usable machine.

I got by my boot floppy problems by not using floppies anymore, sortof. The floppy controller is still present for now, but no floppy image is mounted there.

I used free CD burning software imgburn on Windows to create a bootable version of my 98se install CD. http://www.imgburn.com/

For the boot data, it wants to extract boot data from something, so I pointed it to my 98se boot floppy image for that part. It's set to emulate a 1.44 floppy disc for whatever booting mechanism that is. It looks like my boot floppy coming up, and even is A: prompt to type on, while virtualbox shows no floppy image attached to the floppy controller. Weird... But seems to work better than actual floppy image on floppy controller.

For the files data, I pointed it to copy the root of my install CD to the root of the new bootable iso image.

And now I have what appears to be a self-booting 98se install CD, even if it is pretending to in some way to be a floppy drive.

Install is still running after typing all this. Looks promising...

Eh, installer finished and did reboot. (yes, I removed CD)
Fatal: Could not read from boot medium! System halted.

:/