Vista - Newbie question

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.

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RickyTheFish

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:47:00 -0700, RickyTheFish
<RickyTheFish@xxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting, *where* did yo read that????
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.
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.
You missed the *install* of the operating system.....

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Bo Berglund