Vista - Virtual PC ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to recognize any cd

I'm currently running windows xp sp3 in boot camp (yep..that's right...i'm
using a mac) on an iMac with an intel core duo (2ghz) and 1gb RAM. And a
fully functioning DVD-RW.
I'm having a whole lot of difficulty setting up VPC 2007 SP1.
I have a legitimate Windows 98 Cd, "For PCs without WIndows", and i'd like
to use it to create a Windows 98 virtual machine. However, for the life of
me, I just can't seem to get Virtual PC to recognize that there's a CD In the
drive. I always make sure i'm telling VPC to "Use physical drive F:" before
the virtual machine has time to do anything, and i've even tried turning my
CD into a .iso image, which Virtual PC won't recognize either. For purposes
of determining that it wasn't my CD, i tried a separate, Windows 98 Upgrade
CD...but I got the same result.
I also created a Windows 98 Boot diskette, and used the FDISK and FORMAT
tools to turn my virtual hard drive into a functioning FAT32 drive, in hopes
that maybe if the virtual machine booted from the hard drive it would
recognize a CD. But that didn't help, either.
ANY suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:34:04 -0700, rhapsody275
<rhapsody275@xxxxxx> wrote:
How about making an ISO image of the CD and using that instead. Always
works better than CDs and is a lot faster during the install.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

On Aug 17, 9:34*pm, rhapsody275
<rhapsody...@xxxxxx> wrote:Partition and format the VHD with a bootdisk.
Boot VPC with the bootdisk and make the partition bootable by running
"Sys C:"
Open the VHD with Winimage and copy the 9x files to a subdirectory.
Boot VPC, navigate to where you copied the 9x files and install 9x.

Thanks for the responses!
I tried the .ISO image, with no luck.
It looks like winimage was what I needed to use.
Thanks again for all your help, guys!

"rhapsody275" wrote: