Installing Windows 98 SE

[gemillam]

I have a Windows 98 SE Full install disk that I got off of eBay, just with the idea that I was going to use it on my new Intel iMac once some genius figured out how to make Vanderpool work on it ;). Well, I got Workstation configured and it's seeing my CD drive, but it isn't recognizing it as a bootable CD. Isn't all Windows SE Full Installation disks bootable? Is there something I need to do that I am unaware of?

[Alexey]

Probably your CD isn't bootable. To solve the problem you should boot from bootable DOS floppy (you can use image) and make some preparation before installation.

Make new FAT partition on your virtual HDD by FDISK and format it by using FORMAT C: /S.
If you want that Windows 98 is installed faster don't forget to add EMM386 in the CONFIG.SYS.

Now you are ready to launch setup.exe from your Win98 CD. :)

[gemillam]

Hmmm... it didn't come with a boot floppy, just the CD. How can I create a boot floppy image for Parallels that will boot the VM and let me run the setup? Thanks for your help, BTW.

[anshar]

1. Check "Boot options" in Parallels configuration window. Boot sequence should start from CD-ROM.
2. Check this topic - http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=73.

[tacit_one]

Hmmm... it didn't come with a boot floppy, just the CD. How can I create a boot floppy image for Parallels that will boot the VM and let me run the setup? Thanks for your help, BTW.
You can use an image for win9x with cd-rom support from http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnlddisk.htm or any other dos-floppy with cd-rom support.

[gemillam]

OK, I've downloaded the Windows 98 startup boot floppy image... but its an .exe file. I am doing all of this on my mac. Do I need another PC for this? Sorry to be such a pain here... I really appreciate all of your help.

[Nadine McSim]

OK, I've downloaded the Windows 98 startup boot floppy image... but its an .exe file. I am doing all of this on my mac. Do I need another PC for this? Sorry to be such a pain here... I really appreciate all of your help.

Here is a boot floppy disk image. Please boot from it and in the menu choose "Boot with XMS and CD-ROM drivers"

[TheLorax]

Nadine,

I'm having the same issues. I got XP installed, but my WIndows 98 or Windows 95 disks won't boot, and I can't seem to be able to download the freedos.fdd file you posted, I get kicked back to a log in screen. I can't get Parallels to recognize my physical floppy drive, so I believe I too need .fdd files of both, unless you can tell me how to create an .fdd file.

[jmaynard]

How is the floppy attached to your system? If there's a /dev/... file that points to it, you can create a .fdd file by doing "dd if=/dev/... of=file.fdd bs=18k" in a Terminal window. I don't have a floppy drive on any of my Macs, so I can't get more specific than that.

[TheLorax]

ymaynard-

I tried that and parallels did not like my resulting .fdd file. This is frustrating because XP went so smooth, but I can't get 95 or 98 to go.

[gemillam]

OK... now we are getting somewhere. I used the FreeDOS image to boot the VM, and loaded it as instructed. For some reason it didn't see the physical CD, but it DID see an .iso I made from it.

It started doing its thing, but then it stalled, saying "Windows Setup requires 7340032 bytes available on your C: drive." From this, I gather that FreeDOS set up C: as a ram disk with enough space to install a bootable system, but the stupid Windows setup app wants to install on C: and expects a hard drive.

So, now what do I do? How can I fool this thing into doing the right thing? BTW, thank you VERY MUCH for your help.

[anshar]

After booting from freedos.fdd you should do following prior to Win9x installation:

1. Run fdisk.exe and create partiotion and make it active.
2. Reboot VM and format disk C:

Win9x setup are stupid - it can't make partition on raw disk and can't even format it :rolleyes:

[gemillam]

Hmmm... I think those more knowledgeable about DOS and Windows who are helping us poor Mac users assume certain skills we Mac users lack. :)

When I ran fdisk, I expected it to launch and to see the hard disk file that was made by Parallel Workstation during the VM creation. Instead, it is fixated on the idea that there are only 3 drives...

a: the FreeDOS boot floppy
c: A RAM disk called "TURBODRV" that has just enough space to install FreeDOS and run it, and
d: the Windows 98 SE .iso image that is pretending to be a CD-ROM drive.

Because of this, fdisk never runs. If I go to any of the drives and type "fdisk", it thinks about it for a minute, and tells me "Invalid drive designation...Operation Terminated."

So I guess what I need to ask is how to get FreeDOS to recognize the Hard Disk file, and give it a drive letter, which is preferably "c:".

[gemillam]

Maybe a good clue in finding out how to cajole FreeDOS into finding and setting up a drive letter for the hard disk file is to look at my settings and the Config.sys file FreeDOS uses when it boots up initially. Attached to this post (hopefully) are two screen captures that show the pertinent information.

Boy, once all this gets worked out, I hope I will be able to help others in this forum in the future who go down the same path.

[gemillam]

Alright. I've gotten closer. Here is how, and here is also where it stops now. Maybe some Windows guru can help.

The freedos.fdd file provided in an earlier post will not work with my Win98SE CD because setup.exe (and Workstation, for that matter) expects the hard disk file to be the C: drive. But the software on the freedos.fdd file uses a ramdisk app called TDSK.EXE or Turbodisk that automatically sets itself up as the C: drive. Because of this, fdisk won't work, setup won't work, it all falls apart.

So, what I did was to find out how Turbodisk does its thing on the net, and along the way, I found a different ram disk called xmsdsk.exe. This one allows you to set the drive letter for your ram disk. I edited the FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files so that it ignored the original ram disk software and used the new one. It took some jumping through hoops to get the new files downloaded, put in an .iso, and installed into the .fdd files, but I did it. I never thought I would need my ancient DOS skills, but its all coming back to me. <shiver>

Well, anyway, once the FreeDOS floppy booted, made its ram disk and installed a full system, I was able to run fdisk on the hard disk file, assign it a drive letter and format it. At that point I ran SETUP.EXE from the Windows 98 SE .iso file I made from my CD. It began hopefully, and ran scandisk, found no errors, then began copying files it said it needed to install Windows. After a good deal of time (20-30 minutes) it finished, and the screen flashed then went back to black with a line that says "Error loading PROGMAN.EXE", and then it dumped me back into the D: drive (the Win98 .iso).

That is the farthest I have gotten in my quest to run Windows on an Intel Mac, for sure, and I have a feeling that I may be very near the end. As for this PROGMAN.EXE, the 'net says its a program shell used in Win 3 through 98, and can be found as an option in almost all other versions. Is this PROGMAN.EXE supposed to be present in the FreeDOS system running the VM? Anyone know what I should do about this?

[gemillam]

Well, I gave up and called my Windows IT-man brother, and he has a copy of Windows XP SP1 Full Install he never got around to installing. He is sending it to me monday, so Windows 98 SE is out.

But, on the good side of things, while I was waiting for Windows to fail, I downloaded the 1386 distro of Ubuntu, and it installed with flying colors on Beta 2! It even sees my WiFi! The only problem I have is that it doesn't recognize my "floppy". But as an old Mac user, I think floppies suck anyway. Parallels is great!

[Duke]

Has anyone been able to install Windows 98?

[TheLorax]

Duke,

I was finally able to get Windows 98 SE installed by using the physical disk that shipped with the product, I had a disk that apparently did not require the floppy to load.

I never did get Windows 95 to load, but I'm pleased to have loaded both 98 and XP.

Unfortunately the time it took to install Windows 98 SE was about 2 hours. I'm not sure if using an .iso image would be quicker.

[displaced]

Duke,

I was finally able to get Windows 98 SE installed by using the physical disk that shipped with the product, I had a disk that apparently did not require the floppy to load.

I never did get Windows 95 to load, but I'm pleased to have loaded both 98 and XP.

Unfortunately the time it took to install Windows 98 SE was about 2 hours. I'm not sure if using an .iso image would be quicker.

** Thinking back through the mists of time..... **

If I remember rightly, Win9x setup routines wouldn't try anything beyond Programmed I/O drive accesses during the installation process. That's just about the slowest mode possible, and probably made slower by the emulation/abstraction of the actual drive controller.

Before running Windows's SETUP.EXE, try dropping to a DOS prompt, and run SMARTDRV.EXE.

Windows's setup may give a warning about SMARTDRV running (or that might've been Win3.11 which complained about it...), but carry on regardless.

SMARTDRV is a caching program for disc accesses. I used to run it before doing a Windows installation to make things go much quicker. The XP setup probably uses decent I/O caching and faster IDE modes to appear much quicker.

Hope that helps!

(I wish I could test it myself, but I'll not have an MBP until mid-May!)

Cheers,
Chris

[SwissalpS]

:) I was able to install windows 98se today. It took a little less long than when installing onto a PentiumMMX-200MHz

I am trying to get better graphics. All I gt is VGA (800*600*16colors):rolleyes:
After a lot of trying I was able to get 1024*768*256 (with a laptop LCD-driver) but it wouldn't stay installed. After every reboot it would drop out.

I then tried the CD BootCamp makes for XP. This didn't run properly. I now have more devices in the device-manager but they all have (!) next to them.:rolleyes:

does anyone know of a driver that will give me more resolution & color or is this bound to beta restrictions?:confused:

[dernotte]

I have notice that you have set some param in the config.sys file, but where can I find a .fdd file ?

Didier


Maybe a good clue in finding out how to cajole FreeDOS into finding and setting up a drive letter for the hard disk file is to look at my settings and the Config.sys file FreeDOS uses when it boots up initially. Attached to this post (hopefully) are two screen captures that show the pertinent information.

Boy, once all this gets worked out, I hope I will be able to help others in this forum in the future who go down the same path.

[dernotte]

Sorry for my last post. You can forget about it. I didn't notice that somebody already posted a .fdd file. Thanks

[Andrew @ Parallels]

I am trying to get better graphics. All I gt is VGA (800*600*16colors):rolleyes:
After a lot of trying I was able to get 1024*768*256 (with a laptop LCD-driver) but it wouldn't stay installed. After every reboot it would drop out.
Did you have Parallels Tools installed inside guest OS?

[drtimhill]

I have a Windows 98 SE Full install disk that I got off of eBay, just with the idea that I was going to use it on my new Intel iMac once some genius figured out how to make Vanderpool work on it ;). Well, I got Workstation configured and it's seeing my CD drive, but it isn't recognizing it as a bootable CD. Isn't all Windows SE Full Installation disks bootable? Is there something I need to do that I am unaware of?

NO Windows 9x (including Windows Me) CDROM is bootable (thanks, MS). You need to boot from a floppy and then prepare the HDD before running SETUP.EXE off the CDROM root folder. To make matters more idiotic, you need a recent (post DOS 6.22) boot floppy that can support FAT32 and large HD partitions.

So, you need to:
1. Locate a bootable DOS floppy disk image that supports large FAT32 paritions. The best candidate is the "Recovery Disk" floppy created during Windows 9x Setup (but of course you cannot run that yet!! -- I know, it's ridiculous).

2. Boot the VM using that floppy and also insert the WIndows CD. Make sure you choose to boot with CDROM support.

3. You should now have several drive letters: A: will be the floppy, another will be a small Ramdisk with some tools on it, and another will be the CDROM. They will be C:, D: or E:. Try a DIR command to find each.

4. Execute the FDISK command to partition the hard disk. You can pretty much walk through the defaults to create a single large partition (note: I advise keeping the HDD size to 2GB or less). At the end you will be told to reboot. Do so.

5. Boot from floppy again and again choose CDROM support. After booting enter "FORMAT C:" to format the HD. The format process will run and at the end you get to name the volume (choose anything).

6. If all has gone well, you should now be able to do a DIR C: and see an empty hard disk.

7. Now, locate the CDROM image drive. It will be D: or E: Look for "SETUP.EXE' in the root.

8. Switch to the CDROM drive ("CD D:" or "CD E:"), then enter "SETUP".

9. Follow the Windows setup directions.

Finally, on my copy of PW I had to tinker with the boot order settings to get it to boot from floppy: choose floppy boot first.

Good luck!

--Tim

[andgarden]

Recognizing the difficulty of doing this kind of installation, Steve Jain, a former devloper for Connectix, the company that created Virtual PC, hosts a ready-to-go for Windows 98 virtual machine on his web site here (vpc.essjae.com/).

Perhaps Parallels could arrange something similar for the shpping version of Workstation?

[Jerry]

I can't seem to get the VM Tools option to successfully install under Win 98. The first time around, choosing the install option, set it all in motion, but at the end of the installation, it just sat there. I left it for over 30 minutes & decided it's not happening. I sent the 'reset' command to the VM. After that Win 98 booted up, took FOREVER to repair the disk, and then posted the following when it got to the desktop:

The PARALLELSTOOLCENTER.exe file is linked to missing export SHELL32DLLSHGetFolderPathA

Now the 'install tools' option is permanently grayed out. Win XP Pro worked fine, so I don't know if the tools are supposed to work for Win 98.
Any suggestions please?

MacMini 1.66 CoreDuo

[Gaijin]

Here is a boot floppy disk image. Please boot from it and in the menu choose "Boot with XMS and CD-ROM drivers"

When using this image, I can't go beyond the screen where the installer tells me I don't have enough space to install Win 98. I assume that's because the system in the floppy image sees itself as "drive c"...

Has anyone been able to resolve this, and how?

[steveylin]

I used freeos.fdd and started w98 installation, but I always get this error message:

Please wait while Setup initializes.
Scanning system registry...
Copying files needed for Windows Setup...
Setup is unable to read this Setup (.CAB) file and cannot continue.

Has anyone seen this issue? Should I disable the acceleration?

[macanics]

Although logged in to the forum, I cannot seem to access the file (freedos.fdd). Any chance of hosting it externally, or emailing it to me? I'm really stuck trying to get Win98 installed!

[Jerry]

Although logged in to the forum, I cannot seem to access the file (freedos.fdd). Any chance of hosting it externally, or emailing it to me? I'm really stuck trying to get Win98 installed!


John, check your email. :)

[Gaijin]

What I eventually did was to go to the www.bootdisk.com and download a Win98SE bootdisk for non-Windows computers.

After that, the installation went well.

[macanics]

OK, Thanks to Jerry I now have freedos booted in the VM. However, and I've searched the forum, I can't seem to make sense of the instructions to get TDSK to mount the RAMDrive on something other than C:. I need some way of creating and formatting the main partition prior to Win98 installation. Any recipes I can follow, peeps?
cheers
---john---

[Gaijin]

OK, Thanks to Jerry I now have freedos booted in the VM. However, and I've searched the forum, I can't seem to make sense of the instructions to get TDSK to mount the RAMDrive on something other than C:. I need some way of creating and formatting the main partition prior to Win98 installation. Any recipes I can follow, peeps?
cheers
---john---

As I mentioned in my post above, I resolved this issue by going to the Bootdisk.com. Here's the more exact link:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Scroll down, and under "Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp", choose "Win98SE" and download it. It works with Parallels as a floppy image.

From there, my installation was trouble-free. Hope it works for you, too.

[steveylin]

Gaijin, thanks for posting the bookdisk link. I was able to use it to book up and install W2K on my Macbook. I had to change to CD2 for it to recognize the CD, but other than that, everything went smoothly.

[drtimhill]

Just a quick FYI for the posters here.

*NO* WIndows 9x (or Windows Me) CD was ever issued by MS that was bootable. Mostly, they predated the bootable CD feature of modern PCs, and for Windows Me it was probably just lack of interest at MS.

The assumption was that you would already have access to some form of DOS. Hmmm.

In any case anyone is unclear, you will have to find a bootable DOS floppy, then use it to FDISK and FORMAT the HDD. You will also need a DOS floppy that can mount the CD. Once this is done, just run SETUP from the CD.

And yes, this is crazy. :(

--Tim

[Jim Waugh]

Mine is a new MacBook 2GHz, 1gig mem and an 80 gig HD with the latest version of OS X for dual intel processors. There are differences between the dual intel and Power PC versions of OS X even though the revision numbers are the same.

Talk about a challenge to get WIN98SE on and up and running! The DOS image refered to earlier in this thread does not do the whole job. It did allow for fdisk to create and activate an active partition but you could not format it with the included format prog. There is a long refrain about this in this thread. I encountered it all.

I went to bootdisk.com and downloaded the Non-Windows based image of Win98SE and it did allow me to format the C:\ drive but not install. It was obvious that I needed an image file of my 98SE start up disk.

On the bootdisk.com site, on the page with the DOS-Win startup downloads is a prog listed a WinImage. I put it on my old Penium 2 WIN98SE laptop and ran It for it is a windows prog and it will take your boot floppy and convert it to an .img file. Just rename the .img to .fdd and your parallels will recognize it, just ignore the warnings as you rename.

If you can download an image file of your startup floppy, you might want to try changing the name of the file to ".fdd" and try it. If your image file ends in .exe, DON'T RENAME IT! Everyone that I did that with was recognized by parallels. I was doing it with DOS images at first. I created a new folder on the Mac HD entitled "Windows Stuff!" and put this there so that you can link it to the FD in the VM. It might also come in handy to minister to my 98 installation some day.

My WIN98SEBoot.img file renamed WIN98SEBoot.fdd works like it is intended. The fdisk works and after the reboot the format C: /s works and the system files installed on the HD are windows system files not DOS. The install actually took about an hour and forty minutes and what I installed in the VM is running as advertised.

Attached is the file I used in my install. It is the boot disk created during the install process that you use to boot up with to minister to your hard drive that needs help. I hope this helps.

[The General]

Well, I'm trying to download this 98SEBoot.fdd, but when I click on it it says I have insufficient priviledges.

Please help me. :(

[andgarden]

Try this zipped emergency boot floppy from Steve Jain (http://vpc.essjae.com/win98EBD.zip)

[Ainvar]

All my windows cd dating from Windows 95 OSR2 are bootable cd-roms. Are you sure you have authentic Window CDs?

[nunyabizness1234]

Thanks to all for the information on how to install Win9x. I'm in the process of installing Windows 95, and could not have made it without the boot disk images provided above. I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to make a .fdd image from my floppies.

Fdisk really takes you back!

[martincunningham]

Thanks to all for the information on how to install Win9x. I'm in the process of installing Windows 95, and could not have made it without the boot disk images provided above. I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to make a .fdd image from my floppies.

Fdisk really takes you back!
Which boot disk image(s) did you use? What procedure did you follow? I'm trying to install Win95 and have gotten tantalizingly close but it hasn't happened yet. I was wondering if it was in fact possible until I came across your post.

[martincunningham]

problem solved! i downloaded the file that was provided by tacit_one (thank you, t_o), opened it using my WinXP V and used the floppy image to boot up my Win95 VM. had several problems after that but worked through them. When running FDISK, for example, i was getting messages indicating that no partitions were defined and that there were two fixed disks. When I changed the IDE settings in Parallels, this went away and i was able to install.

[kinderbrunnen]

I'm also having trouble with the Windows 98 installation on my Mac.. I tried the 98SEboot.fdd, but parallels gave me the 'no boot device' error - I'm trying to get a copy of the freedos.fdd, but I don't have sufficient privileges. Can someone email it to me?

Thanks!

[jex]

thankyou for the fdd image, saved a heap of time.

cheers.

[jex]

Oh and for those having problems loading progman.exe, don't use the freedos image - grab the "non-windows" win98SE .img from the link on the previous page.

I'm using the win98se image to install win95 right now and no signs of the progman.exe error. ;)

[yakin_murat]

OK...I think the basic problem with windows 98 installation is to format the disk space as FAT32. I've solved that problem. I did as follows:

1- Configured cd-rom device to read from a windows 98 SE iso image that I downloaded from internet. This is done by clicking on the CD-ROM options in your initial parallels screen. Check "read from file" and then choose the .iso file.

2- I've set boot options as "boot from cd-rom".

3- When I've started the VM, I've choosen "boot from CD-ROM", not "boot from harddisk".

4- I've choosen to "start with CD-ROM support" (the terminology may be different, I don't remember it exactly right now; but it is the 2nd choice of 3). Then dos is opened on a:.

5- I found this link. It tells everything about how to format your hd as FAT32. Read it.

http://www.hildrum.com/installing_win98__and_making_a_b.htm

Go to the bottom of the page. The title is "4. Clean Install".

6- Follow the instructions there. If you have problems with format c: /s command, download an .img file that you can use ad floppy image. Where to find it is told in previous messages. (IMPORTANT: If you do not check the "connect at start up" box (which is under the checked "enable" box) in the floppy set up window of VM, floppy image doesn't run. So, make sure you check that box. Also make sure that floppy is your first choice of boot devices, if you need to apply this step.

7- Now, after using the link on the 5th step (and + 6th step if you need), you might be able to format your hd in FAT32 file system.

MY PROBLEMS START HERE.

8- I run DOS again after all of these. Now, I even have the FAT32 format on the disk. I go to "e:" which is my cd-rom (set to read the win98SE.iso file). I write "setup". It is supposed to be installing Windows 98 SE, but the program is stuck at this point. I always have to restart the VM after this. But I tried another thing:

9- "boot from CD-ROM", then choose "start set up by using Windows CD" (again I don't remember what it was writing exactly, but you'll understand what that is) and then a series of operations in DOS end with this sentence: "THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MEMORY FOR THIS SOFTWARE" (or PROGRAM). Well, my RAM is set to 256, which is a very top level that a windows 98 OS can see in its life.

I CAN'T INSTALL WINDOWS 98 SE ALTHOUGH I HAVE THE HD FORMAT WITH FAT32 FILE SYSTEM. I AM STUCK AT BOTH 8TH AND 9TH STEPS. CAN ANYONE HELP ME TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE, PLEASE?

[yakin_murat]

I downloaded the file 98SEBoot.fdd and it worked great. Thank you all for your comments. However, one interesting addition from me: I was trying to download that .fdd file from forums site by using safari for 4-5 days. I was logging in but then I was asked to log in again, so that the download never starts as this cycle "goes to infinity". Guess what? I used firefox today, and it worked.

[mikedean]

I get all the way through the setup and during the first computer restart the VM just hangs at a black screen. Anyone seen this? I am running RC2 on a Mac Book 2GHz.

[billearl]

I get all the way through the setup and during the first computer restart the VM just hangs at a black screen. Anyone seen this? I am running RC2 on a Mac Book 2GHz.
Yup. I get this every time I restart or shutdown Win 98 with RC2 (and RC1). It is a known problem to Parallels, so hopefully a fix will be coming.

My workaround is to suspend the VM and not restart (= reset in this case) any more than necessary. I generally use Win XP anyway, so this is not a critical issue for me.

[dweji]

Ohmyfriggingod. What nightmares are brought back to mind. Four hours trying to install Win98 for a client who just has to have it for his new MacBook Pro. Shoot me in the head, Mr. Gates.
THANKS SO MUCH for the 98SEBoot.fdd file! Something finally worked! I had tried lots of other boot disks, this one did the trick. Win98 is happily installing right now.
Oh, and the download problem is indeed SAFARI-related. Firefox and got the file no prob.

[jbh001]

NO Windows 9x (including Windows Me) CDROM is bootable (thanks, MS).Not true. But my Windows 98 SE install CD has printed right on it: For PCs without Windows.
Edit:
Here are my steps:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59120#post59120

If you have an Upgrade CD instead of an OEM CD, try these steps instead:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59121#post59121

The only major problems I've had with Parallels is that Build 1970 recognized my A-Data PD2 USB flash drive, but I couldn't install my HP LaserJet 1320 via USB. With builds 3150 and 3170, the situation is exactly reversed: HP installs (relatively) fine via USB, but I can't get Windows 98 to see my USB flash drive no matter what I try.

[Atomic_Fusion]

What are you guys using for drivers (sound and video) with win98 or winME? I installed Win ME but since I didn't know where I could find video drivers, I deleted the VM. I've got a Macbook Pro 17" Core Duo 2.16, so I need the specific driver for the display in it.

[Paul Sondervan]

As far as I know, you can install Parallel Tools in Windows ME.
It will only install the supported drivers.
The video-driver is one of them.

[jbh001]

Just tried Build 3186 and so far I still have the problem with Windows 98 hanging at shutdown/restart.

In the process, I discovered that the problem diappears when I boot into safe mode. So there must be some driver/component that causes the system to hang at shutdown/restart that is not getting loaded when Windows 98 is started in safe mode.

[jbh001]

While trying a clean install of Windows 98SE under Parallels Build 3186, the system hang at shutdown/restart was gone. . . until I installed Parallels vmtools. Then it reared ifs ugly head again. However, with this new information I started installing the vmtools one by one instead of all at once, and ended up isolating the problem to the Parallels SVGA video driver.

Just to double check, I went to an old version of a Windows 98SE VM and rolled back the video driver to "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)." After shutting down, the system froze again, I restarted, aborted ScanDisk, and made it to the Desktop. Then I clicked on shutdown again to test it, and it shut down completely without hanging.

:( Downside: I'm stuck at 640x480x16 until Parallels fixes their video driver for Windows 98.
:) Upside: No more having to manually stop the VM to shutdown + no more ScanDisk at every startup.

:confused: Now if I could only get Build 3186 to recognize my USB flash drive like Build 1970 did. . .

[yknot]

I am new to parallels and am trying to install win 95
After inserting an original win95 cd i get the message: no boot device available, press enter to continue.
When I do this I am back to where I was. Soooo where do I go

The second question is: can I install a win 98 upgrade (original) directly or must I install 95 and upgrade from there?


Thanks

yknot

[yknot]

Sounds simple enough But where in the world would I get a bootable copy os DOS or a disk image thereof??
I may have some old floppies somewhere but no way to transfer them onto a laptop.

[jbh001]

can I install a win 98 upgrade (original) directly or must I install 95 and upgrade from there?If you have an upgrade disk, you must have an operating system already installed in order to "upgrade".

If you have a full install disk, no prior operating system is required. My full install disk of Windows 98 SE has printed right on it "For PCs without Windows". If you do not have this or similar language factory printed on your install disk, it is highly unlikely you have a "full install" disk, and most likely you have an "upgrade" disk--meaning you need to install DOS first then upgrade to Windows 95, or get Windows 95 installed, then upgrade to Windows 98.


But where in the world would I get a bootable copy os DOS or a disk image thereof??Take the time to read back through this thread and you'll find more than one option for just that.

[Linh My]

None of the *.fdd images was recognized on my computer. Importing Win98 VM totally messed up Parallels and OSX 10.4.8. With a reinstall of Parallels and updating to OSX 10.4.9 this worked

1) Create a Win98 folder on your Mac
2) from BootDisk.com download the DOS6.22.iso The 1.4meg *.iso file
3) Create an *.iso from your Win98 boot disk
4) Perhaps not needed, put some 1.4 meg *.fdd file in the Win98 folder
5) Place both the Win98.iso and the DOS6.22.iso into the Win98 folder
6) Run the "OS Installation Assistant" to create a typical Win98 virtual machine.
7) After first attempt fails with no boot device,
7a) set boot to CD first,
7b) point CD to the DOS6.22.iso
7c) point Floppy to the junk *.fdd file
8) start Virtual machine
9) run fdisk create dos partition accept all defaults
10) restart Virtual machine
11) from the CD (R: ?) run format c: /s
12) after format is complete run from the CD xcopy *.* c:
13) shut down Virtual Machine
14) set boot to HD
15) restart virtual machine
16) Optional copy the Win98 directory from the CD to the HD
17) CD into the Win98 Directory and run setup.

[yknot]

Finally got it working

I used the 98seboot.fdd posted by Jim Waugh in conjunction with the instructions by drtimhill

98seboot.fdd used as floppy ( activate connect at startup button )

The rest come from a post by drtimhill

Thanks guys


NO Windows 9x (including Windows Me) CDROM is bootable (thanks, MS). You need to boot from a floppy and then prepare the HDD before running SETUP.EXE off the CDROM root folder. To make matters more idiotic, you need a recent (post DOS 6.22) boot floppy that can support FAT32 and large HD partitions.

So, you need to:
1. Locate a bootable DOS floppy disk image that supports large FAT32 paritions. The best candidate is the "Recovery Disk" floppy created during Windows 9x Setup (but of course you cannot run that yet!! -- I know, it's ridiculous). Or 98seboot.fdd used as floppy ( activate connect at startup button )

2. Boot the VM using that floppy and also insert the WIndows CD. Make sure you choose to boot with CDROM support.

3. You should now have several drive letters: A: will be the floppy, another will be a small Ramdisk with some tools on it, and another will be the CDROM. They will be C:, D: or E:. Try a DIR command to find each.

4. Execute the FDISK command to partition the hard disk. You can pretty much walk through the defaults to create a single large partition (note: I advise keeping the HDD size to 2GB or less). At the end you will be told to reboot. Do so.

5. Boot from floppy again and again choose CDROM support. After booting enter "FORMAT C:" to format the HD. The format process will run and at the end you get to name the volume (choose anything).

6. If all has gone well, you should now be able to do a DIR C: and see an empty hard disk.

7. Now, locate the CDROM image drive. It will be D: or E: Look for "SETUP.EXE' in the root.

8. Switch to the CDROM drive ("CD D:" or "CD E:"), then enter "SETUP".

9. Follow the Windows setup directions.

Finally, on my copy of PW I had to tinker with the boot order settings to get it to boot from floppy: choose floppy boot first.

Does anybody have any opinion as to whether XP is as terrible to install as Win98???


yknot


After I got all this stuff done I installed Parallels Tools.... It totally screwed-up Windows

[Astral_Nomad]

You can use an image for win9x with cd-rom support from http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnlddisk.htm or any other dos-floppy with cd-rom support.
i dont know if its been said before... but if so, im going to repeat this... the link to the boot disks at http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnlddisk.htm ARE VIRUSED.

i just did a scan on them after downloading all the dos and win98 boot images.. and they all came back with a malware alert. I found them with Avast4 antivirus.

heres the details:

Virus: WelcomB-B
Type: Worm

its located in the image files. Just giving you guys a heads up... always scan your downloads..

[jbh001]

NO Windows 9x (including Windows Me) CDROM is bootable (thanks, MS). Then I must have the only bootable Windows 98SE install CDROM on the planet.:)

[Digital_Death]

Hey folks, I'm new to the forum, but not new to the subject.

Something most are not posting is their configurations. As many may have either forgotten or never known: Windows 9x does not support more than 512 memory and even 512Mb can cause problems with corruption and random lockups-Especially at shutdown.

I've configured and run windows 98se on several computers and have never had a lockup problem. What I DO have a problem with is AUDIO drivers. It seems the driver isn't in the latest version of Parallels for Windows Version 2.2 build 2112.

Any one come across this?

[Digital_Death]

I have several Bootable Windows 98 SE CD's. They HAVE TO SAY for Systems WITHOUT Windows. Microsoft then decided they didn't need to make a bootable Windows ME CD, which boggles the mind. Some of the Disks I have came wish Softwindows or Virtual PC. Many OEM disks - The ones that have " For Distribution with a new PC Only. For Product support, contact the manufacturer of your PC." printed on them.

[Digital_Death]

For those who need a utility to create the Windows 98, 98Se or ME boot floppies, go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and download the appropriate disk. I have found that if you use a windows ME floppy to format the drive it can create problems if installin window 98. Not sure what the problem is, but it gives an error or message about the disks formatting. Please make sure you format FAT 32 if you intend of using a larger disk image. It's faster, more efficient and supports drive sizes up to 32Gb (I think) though some versions of Windows only supports up to 8Gb.(Windows 95se and Windows 98)

[jbh001]

What I DO have a problem with is AUDIO drivers. It seems the driver isn't in the latest version of Parallels for Windows Version 2.2 build 2112. Maybe you are referring to something else, but the latest version of Parallels is version 2.5 Build 3188 (http://download.parallels.com/GA/Parallels-Desktop-3188-Mac-en.dmg) (the transporter that corresponds to this can be had here (http://download.parallels.com/GA/Parallels-Tsp-2.0.1080-Win.exe)). I haven't had problems with the audio drivers since Build 3120.

When you install Parallels Tools, it should automatically place sound and video drivers that you can manually install at C:\Program Files\Parallels\Parallels Tools

[chrisburrough]

Probably your CD isn't bootable. To solve the problem you should boot from bootable DOS floppy (you can use image) and make some preparation before installation.

Make new FAT partition on your virtual HDD by FDISK and format it by using FORMAT C: /S.
If you want that Windows 98 is installed faster don't forget to add EMM386 in the CONFIG.SYS.

Now you are ready to launch setup.exe from your Win98 CD. :)
How do I load win98 without a floppy drive? Can a FDD image be used somehow/

Thanks,

Chris

[hotoru@yahoo.com]

Here is a boot floppy disk image. Please boot from it and in the menu choose "Boot with XMS and CD-ROM drivers"

Having problems installing Windows 95. It really seems like the Parallels folks could write a *simple* walkthrough for the most common OS. Win95/98, XP, ME I have read several posts here but all seem to leave key points out. Has anyone written one for Windows 95? Specfically one with steps that your grandmother could follow ;)

I downloaded the FreeDOS image file above. No mention on specifically how to use it. Sat on my desktop for awhile before I figured out I had to link to it under the Parallels resources tab. When I hit the Play button on parallels still fails to find floppy. says I have no OS installed on my system. This is getting frustrating. At this rate I will no have Win 95 installed to test by the end of my 14 day trial. (Specifically want win 95 or 98 to run older childrens games)

Any help appreciated,
Thanks,

[hotoru@yahoo.com]

As I mentioned in my post above, I resolved this issue by going to the Bootdisk.com. Here's the more exact link:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Scroll down, and under "Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp", choose "Win98SE" and download it. It works with Parallels as a floppy image.

From there, my installation was trouble-free. Hope it works for you, too.

Ok, I downloaded the Win98SE from bootdisk.com I burned as a CD but parallels will not recognize. How do I get parallels to recognize as a floppy image? I tried copying all the files to a folder but parallels need a file.

Thx,
Hotoru
Intel Mac Mini No floppy drive

[hotoru@yahoo.com]

Not true. I have had (relatively) no problems installing Windows 98 SE under build 1970, 3150, or 3170. Here are my steps:

1. My Windows 98 SE install CD has printed right on it: For PCs without Windows.
1a. Make an ISO image of your install CD using Parallels Image Tool if you wish.

2.1 Start Parallels.
2.2a Select New, or
2.2b From the menu bar select File | New...

Ok, I finally think I have it working on a mac mini intel. Thank you for all of the help on this forum. I will not repeat this exellent post #52

I would like to add a few points that I ran into during setup and summarize to hopefully help others.

--Download the virtual OS floppy in post #32
--After you do the inital setup on post #52 of the OS set the Floppy drive to the FDD file you downloaded in post #32
--Then click the green play button
-- ***** The VM kept failing to connect to drives on me until I finally noticed a little floppy drive with a red X on it on the bottom right of the VM window. I clicked on it and hit connect. Then I rebooted the VM and presto.. finally recognized the floppy drive.
--Boot with CD Rom support
--Now you have essentially booted to a virtual floppy but have an unformatted HDD
--You will then need to use the FDISK on A: to mount the HDD C
--Then reboot the VM
--Again, select with CD Rom support
--Now you have a mounted drive that is unformatted
--Go to the Windows install CD Drive (win 95 for me) probably with D:
--The Format file is on the install CD for windows
--Type "Format C: /s" without quotes
--After drive formated then you can run the setup.exe file on the windows install CD on (proabaly on the D: drive)
--then follow setup instructions for windows..

....phew... Now I just have to get the sound working :-)
Hotoru

[redfox]

What I eventually did was to go to the www.bootdisk.com and download a Win98SE bootdisk for non-Windows computers.

After that, the installation went well.

Just for the record (and since I had a lot of trouble at first, having forgotten a lot of my Windows knowledge since migrating to Unixland):

I have a MacBook and an OEM bootable CD of Win 98 SE (from an old PC), and am using the latest Parallels (3188?). I installed a virtual machine for Win 98, but couldn't get the OS to install at first, as it couldn't read anything useful from the default floppy image.

I downloaded the bootdisk image as described by Gaijin, and unzipped the folder. Then I changed the VM setup (Edit->Virtual Machine) to point to the .fdd file in the unzipped folder for its floppy drive. I also used the Image Tool in the Parallels application folder to create an ISO image of my CD, and pointed the VM at that instead of my optical drive (partly because I'd read somewhere that it would be a bit quicker, and partly because my install CD was rather scratched and I was worried it might fail halfway through!).

I made sure that the boot sequence was CD first (click on Windows 98 in the list on the left, then on the "Boot" tab on the right - IIRC), then restarted the VM. Hey presto! Flawless install :D

Hope this helps anyone else with the same setup!

[titetanium]

I know it's probably way too late to chime in, but floppies are so old technology. I don't remember the steps I did, but I was able to convert DOS 6.22, win 98/ME floppy boot disks into bootable cds. I have those cd's with me to use for emergency repairs.

Just to let you all know that this is possible, but unfortunately, I didn't document the steps I took to create them. :-(

[tiberius]

What a pain!

I've never done any work in DOS before of anything but express installs with Parallels-- but somehow managed to get win 95 working-- Thanks a lot everyone!

You might want to give some detailed step by step on the dos commands, because some people (me) have no idea what they are doing, and it would save some guess and check work.

Anyway ... thanks a bunch for your help. Now I'm off to play some ridiculously old games.

[terrymac]

I need help!

I successfully booted using the Jim Waugh .FDD image file and I successfully began the installation of Windows 98SE by means of an ISO image of my installation CD. After 90 or so minutes of what seemed a successful installation - things went bad. I started to receive dialogue boxes stating that certain (unknown to me) devices could not be found/installed. This is the stage where I lost my way.

I was able to get Windows to start but only in safe mode but i could do nothing with it.

On the black screen i received the following message:

"Cannot find device file that may be needed to run Windows.
The Windows registry or SYSTEM>INI file refers to this device file, but the device file no longer exists.

If you deleted this file on purpose, try reinstalling the associated application using its uninstall or setup program.

If you still want to use the application associated with this device file, try reinstalling that application to replace the missing file
vnetsup.vxd
Press a key to continue"

When I pressed a key I received the same message for three more files: vnetbios.vxd, vredir.vxd, and dfs.vxd.

Now, I have got absolutely no idea what this all means.

Does this mean I have a faulty installation CD disc?

Can anyone out there help me please?

[jbh001]

Yes, you may have a faulty installation disk, or just a faulty installation.

Have you tried these steps?
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59121#post59121

[terrymac]

Thank you for the response. I will follow your instructions and hope for the best. I have followed the instructions in the Parallels manual so far and I have had the same result four times. This adds up to a lot of wasted time. I will report back soon.

[terrymac]

Thank you jbh001 - I really appreciate your help. I followed your instructions exactly and Windows 98SE installed without any problems. I also installed the sound driver successfully.

The only thing is that when I shut down using start-shut down-OK, I receive a black screen and I have to manually hit the stop button on the VM configuration. When I start the VM again it goes through the scan disk operation checking for errors on c: saying that Windows was not shut down properly. It is not a big deal but it is a little inconvenient. Is this what you meant about Windows freezing on shutdown because of the sound driver near the end of your comprehensive instructions?

Thanks again.

[jbh001]

Is this what you meant about Windows freezing on shutdown because of the sound driver near the end of your comprehensive instructions?

Yes, except that it is the video driver (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=47261#post47261) causing it, not the sound driver. Supposedly this was to be fixed in 3.0 of Parallels (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=50107#post50083), but the early reports indicate that this bug is still with us (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=63055#post63055), unfortunately.

[jbh001]

I case you haven't noticed, a workaround for the video problem was recently posted here:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=66789#post66789

I have updated my installation instructions accordingly, after trying it out.
Windows 98 OEM CD Install: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59120#post59120
Windows 98 Upgrade CD Install: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59121#post59121

[terrymac]

I'm afraid that I need some assistance with the process suggested here. I do not know how to create the suggested batch file nor do I understand the subsequent instructions.

Any chance of some help please?

[terrymac]

Can anyone give me some hints in getting the Windows 98SE VM to recognise a flash memory stick?

I have istalled the necessary Flash memory manager, when I insert the stick and click Devices-USB I find the Flash Memory with a check beside it but it does not show in windows explorer. It is not recognised by the Mac either.

[kuliand]

ok im having trouble finding the cd, i type CD D: or CD E: but it goes straight back to A: in dos?

i still can't get my cd to work everything i type just gets me no where. I have been trying DIR E: and DIR F: but it say there is not enough memory so i guess it still isn't finding the cd drive?

[ehurtley]

In old-fashioned DOS, you change to another drive by just typing its drive letter with a colon.

So to change to drive D, you don't type "CD D:", you just type "D:"

Also, I'll also chime in that Windows CDs have been bootable for a very long time. I have a 95b that is bootable, and my 95a might even be bootable, too.

[Hilary Fascination Design]

For all people TRYING to access their shared parallels folder in Windows 98 that they probably already set up for windows XP - the following worked for me:

Adding a New Share
Open Terminal and type
sudo pico /etc/smb.conf
If you're prompted for your user password, enter it.

You should now see the contents of your smb.conf file, complete with the [global] and [homes] sections described above, as well as some sample sections for [public] and [printers].

Give yourself some space after the [homes] section by moving the cursor below it and pressing the enter key a few times. Now type in exactly what appears below:


[shared]
comment = Shared Directory
path = /Users/Shared
read only = no
browseable = yes
create mode = 755

Once you've entered these changes, press Ctrl+O and then enter to save the file, then press Ctrl+X to quit.

To verify that your changes were saved successfully, use the command cat /etc/smb.conf and read through to be sure everything is there.

Now the changes don't immediately take effect. To make Samba aware of the changes, use the command in terminal
sudo killall -HUP smbd

This will tell the Samba daemon to reload its configuration information.

Logged into Windows 98
Click on My computer or anything that will get you the address bar.
Type in
\\your ip address or your mac's computer name \shared
In my case I typed in:
\\192.168.1.102\shared

And voila, you should be able to see your shared parallels file now (or if you didn't have a parallels folder on the mac side you can create one.)

The resource I used to get this is:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/18/samba.html

There's some additional information there about settings and security if you are trying to accomplish something similar but different.

[rowbearto]

There is a comprehensive step by step guide for installing Windows 98 in Parallels 3.0 which can be found here:

http://robsnotebook.com/parallels_win98

[corvettejrw]

It is driving me crazy staring at a 640x480 screen in windows 98!

Any fixes on the horizon?
jrw

[jbh001]

This work-around (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=68655#post68655) was posted months ago. Do you know how to use the "search" fuction in these forums?

[corvettejrw]

Thanks for the info. I have never heard of this thing you call "search." I will be sure to look it up in the dictionary when I finish this post.

Thanks again.

[justinhoward]

Dear Parallels Team

I am so wanting to be able to install Windows 95 and Windows 98 on my new MacBook Pro 2.2 gHz laptop.

I am running Mac OSX 10.4.11:

System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2167)
Kernel Version: Darwin 8.11.1
Boot Volume: Macintosh HD

The problem is that I reach a point in the install where I receive an error message:

ERROR SU-0013
Setup could not create files on your startup drive and cannot setup Windows.

If you have HPFS or Windows NT file system, you must create an MSDOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or Supersto compresssion, disable it befor running Setup. See SETUP.TXT on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CDROM.


I have tried every possible method to install Window 95 onto my laptop. The floppy disk emulator that comes with Parallels does not seem to work. I have tried every possible fdd suggested on the various forums and still nothing works.

I have tried following the method as suggested in the manual that accompanies the install disk of Parallels. I have updated the software and still no joy. I am getting so frustrated trying to get this to work.

I have created .img files of the win95 install disk and that did not work. I had the very bright idea of copying all the files from the win95 install disk to the virtual harddrive of win95 and no joy

When Win95 starts it checks the disk and starts the install process and stops with the error message above

Am I doing something wrong?

I would really love to be able to fix this problem and be able to help others that afre having the same problem, to me it just seems so overly complicated to have to do something, other than that problem I have not problems with the software.

I was able to solve my UBUNTU install problem, took a while but once I solved it all went well, same with WinXP I installed and was able to load and play C&C Red Alert2 with no problems.

Would it be to much to ask if you could assist me in someway with a workaround solution to solving this problem

Many Thanks for a a great software solution

Justin Howard justin.howard@absamail.co.za
South Africa

[Xenos]

Hello justinhoward,

Did you see this article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200119/EN-US/)?

Best regards,
Xenos

[justinhoward]

Hi Xenos

Yees I did read the article. As my per my previous post, I have tried everything, formatting, fdisking. Reducing the size of the harddrive to 512Mb. Using every type of .fdd I could find. The setup crashes at the point just after accepting the license agreement.

What is a puzzle to me is why the .fdd supplied does not work? Would it not be possible for Parallels to supply as standard a working .fdd?

If I could get the various operating systems to work I would be very willing to add to my wiki all the solutions that I have used. I am so disappointed that although the book says win95 works under Parallels, I cannot get it to work. As per my first posting I got Ubuntu 7.10 and Win XP Home to work under Parallels without a problem.

Why is it so difficult to get a "simpler" operating system to work?

Thanks

[spectre]

justinhoward,

Unfortunately we cannot supply any bootable MS-DOS floppy images with Parallels as it's the 3rd party intellectual property and I don't think Microsoft will be happy if we ship their MS-DOS with our commercial software :)
We have an article here describing how you can create .fdd image from your own bootable floppy, please check it here - http://kb.parallels.com/entry/27/485/0/
Also, please make sure you have partitioned and formatted the VM hard drive with "fdisk" before starting Windows installation.

[jbh001]

You don't mention which version of Parallels you are using (or I missed it). Some have had success with completely uninstalling Parallels, installing a previous build (like 4128 (http://download.parallels.com/v3/en/GA/Parallels%20Desktop%204128%20Mac%20en.dmg) or 3188 (http://download.parallels.com/GA/Parallels%20Desktop%203188%20Mac%20en.dmg)), creating a brand new VM, and then "upgrading" Parallels to the latest build after successfully getting the VM up and running.

With this method, you need to remember to reboot your Mac each time
1. After removing/uninstalling Parallels,
2. After installing/upgrading Parallels prior to creating or accessing a VM.
This is for safety reasons as some components of Parallels require a reboot to be complete removed or activated within the Mac OS.

With all the remedies you said you have tried, I would begin to suspect some corruption of the Mac OS somewhere and would be tempted to do a clean install of the Mac OS (http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2007/11/upgrade/index.php).

I just checked and didn't find a boot disk for Windows 95 at http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm, in the Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp section. But you might be able to get this to work (if you haven't tried it already) as described here (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59121#post59121) in step 1.1 and step 11.

I seem to remember that Windows 95 doesn't support FAT32 disks nor any disks larger than 2GB. So when partitioning and formatting the your VM's hard disk, I would NOT enable large disk support since I think that means a FAT32 filesystem instead of a FAT16 filesystem.

I also found this info regarding the error you described that you might be able to glean something usable from: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188166

I also found this related information:

Go to www.bootdisk.com , download the Windows 98 boot disk image, make a boot diskette. Either way, run FDISK from the DOS prompt, delete all partitions, create a single 8GB FAT32 partition. (As an alternative, if you need to install Windows 95, and it is the earlier junk original Windows 95A release lacking FAT32 support, set up one 2GB FAT16 partition.) Now format the partition with the DOS FORMAT command, then install. The important thing here is to remove all old partitions.

Then again maybe you have already tried all of this.

If you can get it working, let us know so the rest of us can benefit from your experience.

[justinhoward]

Hi All

A short reportback, got Win95 win2000 and xp loaded and working on my macbook pro. Only problem I have is getting win95 to see the internet, it would be nice if I could get win95 to connect via the ethernet cable as my Mac is connected to the internet via my win xp desktop machine. is there any settings I have to change?

Thanks

[Xenos]

Hello justinhoward,

Could you clarify, what you mean by "Mac is connected to the internet via my win xp desktop machine"?

Please make sure that the virtual machine network adapter is enabled:

1. Launch Parallels Desktop for Mac
2. Click the Network Adapter link in the main configuration window to open its settings.
3. Make sure that the Enabled and Connect cable at startup options are selected in the Device Status area.
4. Under the Emulation section select the Bridged Ethernet option and choose Default Adapter or any other Mac network connection interface that is connected to the network.
5. Click OK to close Configuration Editor.

Best regards,
Xenos

[jbh001]

It's been a while since I've done anything with Windows 95. Does it have an Internet Connection Wizard like Windows 98 does that allows you to designate that you are connecting through a LAN?

[ronmolenda]

Worked on Windows 98SE, thanks!

[jbh001]

Can anyone give me some hints in getting the Windows 98SE VM to recognise a flash memory stick?

I've given up on trying to get Windows 98SE trying to recognize my USB flash drive.

If you don't want to copy the contents of your flash drive to a folder within your home directory on the Mac (which is what I originally did), there is a way to hack (http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-63437.html) the Mac OS to let Windows see the USB flash drive attached to your Mac.

But a simpler solution is to use the freeware program SharePoints (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12512) to do this hacking for you.

With SharePoints, you give your flash drive a unique name, and then enable SMB so that Windows can see it. From Windows, you should then be able to read and write to the flash drive just as though it were any other drive on the Windows network. I thought the process was rather intuitive, but if you need more detail to make it work, let me know.

In my case, after sharing the flash drive on the Mac via SharePoints, I can point Windows to my Mac (e.g. \\jbhmacmini\) then click on the now-visible flash drive, and even drag a shortcut for it to my Windows desktop for easier navigation.

I now have two network links from my within my Parallels VM back to my Mac:
\\jbhmacmini\jbh\Documents
and
\\jbhmacmini\FLASHJBH01

[Mach]

Ive spent about 7 hours today trying to get win98 to work. Anyway, heres a screenshot of where i am now. http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/Etai/stuck.jpg

after a few reboots and ejects it still refuses to recognize the cd at this point

I'm using a mac version 10.4.11 leopard and parallels 3.0

[jbh001]

It looks like Windows is trying to install drivers and doesn't know where to find them.

You might want to try making an image of your Windows install CD (http://kb.parallels.com/entry/30/458/). You can then point Parallels' CD/DVD Device at your CD image instead of the physical CD/DVD drive. When Windows is looking for drivers, you would then point it to D:\WIN98 (or whatever the drive letter is for your CD/DVD drive within the VM).

Also copying the Windows installation files to the virtual C: drive is another way around this (see step 13.8 (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59121#post59121) or step 13.9 (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=59120#post59120)). When Windows is looking for drivers, you would then point it to C:\WIN98

[J Brito]

Can anybody tell me baby steps how to install the crap windows 98, I need it for my stupid work and I can get to work??? I have a Legal copy of windows 98 and 95. I am a Mac user for a long long long time and I don't understand fdisk floppy dos. All I wanted is to install by press buttons, Like a Mac. Sorry if I being asking to much

[reelstuff]

I have been unable to install win98 in any method listed in this thread I have tried them all,

I am a paid, user and I do not understand, why I cannot get this to work, we all know win 98 is an old old, os, but I need to recover, come old QIC files, and win 98 is my only option, Now, I just updated to version 5 with the understanding that it would work, but so far it has not worked.

It seems a little crazy that I spend this kind of money and the software does not work, for something as simple as this.

[davert]

Agreed.

Apparently they dropped Parallels Tools support for Win98 which means -- no more drivers for network, video, etc. Makes it kind of useless.

VirtualBox also has no drivers.