Newbie ? - Creating New Win98 Virtual Drive on Mac OSX

[DuncanLForbes]

So I am trying to create a new Win98 virtual disk. I booted off a CD created from a Win98 boot disk iso image.

The virtual machine is booted up at the A: prompt. And now I am second guessing myself like crazy.

Can I run fdisk, format /s & then copy my Windows 98 CD over to the "hard drive" like I was doing a regular install on a machine.

I just wanted to be sure that I wasn't going to mess up my system by accidentally running fdisk on my physical drive and not my virtual drive.

Like I said, I feel like I'm doing things right but just wanted to make sure before going for it.

[Sasquatch]

You won't accidently format your Host drive. Read the Tutorials and Rules/FAQ for how to install Win 9x in VB.

[BillG]

The A: prompt in Win98 is a floppy drive, not a CD. You will have to install DOS with CD support before you can use a CD.

[Sasquatch]

Or boot from a boot disk with CD support.

[DuncanLForbes]

Ok, so I did an fdisk and format and now I can boot to the dos prompt on my "c" drive. The basic dos operating system is functioning fine, although my xcopy32.mod is corrupt and so I can't use xcopy.

The cdrom is mounting fine and I can select it, and access it fine from the shell.

The problem is that now I cannot get setup to run without crashing.

I am running it with the following switches /pj (per suggestion in the tutorial) /is (no scandisk) and because it seemed to be dumping asking for mouse capture I'm also using the /n (no mouse) switch.

The error it is dumping with is:

Standard Mode: Fault Outside Of MS DOS Extender.

If it helps I can do a screen capture of the error.

[DuncanLForbes]

Ok, just found somebody else's post with the same problem.

Turned off what they suggested and downed the ram to 32 and it is now installing.