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Re: [TCLUG:6553] VMWare is excellent



On 17 Jun, Bob Tanner wrote:
> I read about VMWare in L.J. and downloaded it last night.
> 
> I have to say I am TOTALLY impressed. It works perfectly. I can now run Linux
> as the main OS, with Win95, Win98 and WinNT all as guest OS. Speed is very
> good, almost as fast as native.
> 
> I HIGHLY recommend checking it out.
> 
> http://www.vmware.com
> 
> As an aside, vmware will not allow you to boot from a cdrom (yet), so anyway
> to take on of those Win95 cdroms (that come with a new PC) and create some
> sort of boot floppy that will recognize the cdrom so I can install from CDROM?
> 
Just make a dos boot disk that has a cdrom driver on it and mscdex. 
Then put the approiate lines in your config.sys and autoexec.bat on the
disk like so.
config.sys:
device=cdrom.sys /d:cdrom
autoexec.bat:
mscdex /d:cdrom /l:y /v

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