03-23-2006, 07:17 PM
I'm trying to get the Q emulator to install Win98SE on my iMac G5. Q boots fine, I can make a guest PC OK. I made a disk image of a Win98 boot floppy (had to change .dmg to .img to get Q to recognize it). I can't get the install CD to run, neither the physical CD or an image of it seems to work. I get a DOS report of a fatal error that the system cannot read the CD.
The boot floppy image seems to boot fine -- I can run fdisk from it. DOS shows the QEMU hard disk image and the built-in SuperDrive as drive D.
When I change the DOS prompt from A:\ to D:\ D shows to be recognized. If I then run setup, the command is accepted, then a couple of seconds later the DOS prompt D:\_ shows back up but nothing further happens.
Help!
BTW, I did load XP Pro successfully reading directly from the Install CD in the SuperDrive (5 hours! I let it run overnight...) but then at log-in as Administrator, the validation fails. The installer took the validation code just fine.... that's when I decided to try 98.
The boot floppy image seems to boot fine -- I can run fdisk from it. DOS shows the QEMU hard disk image and the built-in SuperDrive as drive D.
When I change the DOS prompt from A:\ to D:\ D shows to be recognized. If I then run setup, the command is accepted, then a couple of seconds later the DOS prompt D:\_ shows back up but nothing further happens.
Help!
BTW, I did load XP Pro successfully reading directly from the Install CD in the SuperDrive (5 hours! I let it run overnight...) but then at log-in as Administrator, the validation fails. The installer took the validation code just fine.... that's when I decided to try 98.