Re: DOS app very slow on VPC7 4 Mac

On 11 Dec 2005 17:48:36 -0800, rsutmoller@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi Steve.
>
>Thanks again. My Win '98 is on a 'product recovery CD' for the IBM
>ThinkPad i1400, and it says on it that it can only be used on an IMB
>computedr. Using your VPC7 Win98 container I was able to mount the Cd
>and change to the D:\> prompt, but typing setup.exe yeilded 'Bad
>command or file name'. Clicking on the CD image in the tray, then
>'capture CD image' allowed me to browse the CD ('untitled') through a
>few folders but no 'choose'able files.

You have an OEM version of Windows. It's unlikely you'll be able to
install it in VPC, since most OEMs have software mechanisms to prevent
this, usually the installation program looks for specific hardware
BIOS information. Also, a recovery cd is very different than a retail
OS cd, which is what you need to use the VM container from my website.
It's also a licensing violation to use OEM software on any other
computer than the one it was purchased with.

>
>Is the floppy disk image you refer to above the win98emergency boot
>disk.vfd on your website? I was unable to mount that as a CD image
>either.

Yes. You can't mount a floppy image as a cd image. You would mount
it as a floppy disk. You can do this via the drive menu, or if you
enable the tray icon for the floppy drive, you can drag and drop it
there.

>
>I'm happy to return the VPC7 plus XP pro to the store and exchange it
>for VPC with Win 2000, but I thought it less hassle if I can get this
>to work. Unless you thought 2000 was better, as I have noted 98 to
>crash alot in the past

Exchanging is probably you best bet.

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