[CS-FSLUG] the continueing saga of VMWare

[Tim Young]

If there is a CD in the drive, be it an ISO image or an actual CD, it should
boot automatically when the virtual computer is first turned on.  By default it
has in it's fake little BIOS that the boot-order is a: CDROM: C: to put it in
bios terms.  I do not believe it has a boot from the net option, but I have not
used many recent versions.  My virtual PC does have a real BIOS screen that
pops up when I press <DEL> while the memory check is happening.  You could see
if that needs changing.

    - Tim

Wade A Smith wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:30:39 -0500
> > From: "David M." <david at davidcentral.net>
> > Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] the  continueing saga of VMWare
> > To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group."
> >         <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
> >
> > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:06 pm, Wade A Smith wrote:
> > > My system is a desktop with SuSE 9.2 (unsupported by VMWare --
>
> > IIRC there is a config file you can edit to tell VMWare where your
> > cdrom or
> > DVD drive is.
> >
> >
> > --
> > David M.
>
> The choices are IDE  0:0, 0:1, 1:0; 1:1
> My CD drives are on the IDE secondary port, so that means
> 1:0 and 1:1.  Occasionally, I do get a nastygram saying "if
> you allocate the drive to the "guest OS", you wont be
> able to access it from Linux"  (OK, once I get to boot from
> the CD, I'll worry about that later.)  But I still cant see the
> CD from the "guest OS" (Win98SE, well, DOS at this point)
> and when I do pop in a CD, Linux sees it just fine and brings
> up a window showing me what is on the drive (so much for
> being inaccessable).  This tells me something aint quite right.
>
> And I still havent seen the place to select "boot from CD"
>
> wade
>
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