Re: What to do after I get this message: "OS not found. Install an OS on this hard drive

I have never seen a Win98 bootable cd and unless it was made that way for
the Connectrix version of VPC I have no idea where it came from. If the
user supplies his own 98 cd it would require the normal boot disk such as
the one from bootdisk.com or the original setup floppy. Steve has prepared
some special sets that set up a vm automatically, but that would be outside
the normal set of instructions most users need.

"Michael Paine" <mpaine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O3rmNLchFHA.3448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> For what it is worth, my Win98SE CD turned out to be bootable and I
> successfully created a virtual machine with VPC7. With Steve Jain's advice
> I also managed to "migrate" a VM with Win98 from VPC6 to VPC7. The trick
> was to copy all the Win98 folder from the CD to the virtual d: drive
> (since, by chance, my original Win98 installation had the CD as the d:
> drive it goes looking there first). Another advantage to creating a
> virtual d: drive for Windows!
> http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/mac_osx.html#d-drive
> Michael Paine
>
> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>
>> It means the virtual machine window should be the active window (as in
>> click in it with the mouse). Bootable means that the cd can start the
>> virtual machine just like your OS/X cd can start your Mac.
>>
>> What Windows operating system are you attempting to install? Windows 98,
>> for example, must be started from a floppy because the cd is not bootable
>> and will not start up the computer, real or virtual. Also, you must use
>> the floppy to create a DOS partition and format the virtual hard drive
>> before changing to the cd to install the OS.
>>
>> Windows XP, on the other hand, is bootable and does not require a floppy
>> and will start the vm by itself if the cd is in the drive at the time you
>> start the virtual machine.
>>
>> None of these are VPC issues. They are the procedures for installing a
>> Windows operating system on any computer.
>>
>> "Laura" <Laura.1rz7bz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:Laura.1rz7bz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>I got a Virtual PC 7.0 for my Mac OS X which runs on Jaguar (10.3.6.)
>>>and the installation has been successful so far. However, I keep
>>>getting the message "OS not found. Install an OS on this hard drive.".
>>>I've followed the instructions, but I don't understand what it means
>>>when it says: With Virtual*PC in the foreground, insert the CD that
>>>contains the operating system into the CD drive of your Macintosh. I
>>>don't understand what a bootable CD is and I don't know where I can
>>>find the CD with the operating system. I've put in the installion disk
>>>for Virtual PC 7.0 and the installation disk for Jaguar, but neither of
>>>them work when I click "reset" on the Virtual PC. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Laura
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>View this thread: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230465
>>>macosx.com - The Answer to Mac Support - http://www.macosx.com
>>>
>>
>>

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