All, Thanks to the excellent directions and boot floppy image from this board, I got WIN98 installed last night. Weird thing is at the end where it reboots and discovers all the devices, I lost access to the CD drive. So then I had to go back and add a bunch of device drivers manually and I still don't get a CD drive. Anybody remember how to add CD access in WIN98? thanks, jhb
Yes, I don't see a CD drive in 'My Computer' in WIN98. I did try making an image of the installation CD with the new tool and attaching to that instead of a real CD in the cd player and did not see anything. But I can't swear that I then re-started. I'm not at that machine right now so I can re-test. thanks, jhb
I know how to help. You´re using the first edition of Windows 98, right? In the preferences for the CD-unit before starting the virtual machine:Try putting the CD unit as IDE unit 1:0 instead of 0:1 as was pre-installed. If you now choose add hardware in the win 98 prefs, windows 98 should be able to detect the CD unit as a non-plug&play device. This helped me. Does it help you?
Thanks, this helped me too. Parallels, please fix this. Windows 98 is everything else but easy to install! I understand its not all your fault, but like described above, when set to 0:1, Windows doesnt recognize the CD drive (in the graphical enviroment). And when in 1:0, Windows does recognize it after search, but Parallels BIOS doesnt (as boot device). The installing was everything but a pleasant first experience to Parallels, no matter how good your product may be. I spent 1 full day trying to figure out whats wrong when I cant see my CD drive and it was a wrong default setting in the VM. I understand your main concern isnt some old Windows 98, but more the later Windows versions, but some people still need these old softwares for some weird reasons.
