I picked up a demo copy of Parallels at Macworld Expo. It installs, but it won't install XP. Using the Express Install option, it keeps complaining that there is a corrupt file in the XP installation. Thing is, each time I try the install, it complains about a different file. The disc is OK - I used it to install in Boot Camp, and no other piece of software is complaining about disc problems. So what is the problem?
Some folks who have had that problem have had success by making an image of the install disk and installing from the image. The assumption has been bad disk, but the real issue may be timing.
Well, that didn't help. Now as it starts up the virtual machine it complains that there's no floppy and no CD/DVD, hit any key to proceed. Is there some trick to making the .iso file? I used Toast and dragged all the Windows files to create a disk image.
juliang, Hm... Did you make iso image simply dragged files to Toast? In this case you get non bootable disk. Use Parallels ImageTool or other utilities (dd and other). You need to create a binary copy.
Aha! that did it. Now I am happily (well, actually not) XPing away, after turning off the blech Windows startup sound. Thank you for the help.
