I tried installing RedHat Linux/X86 on Virtual PC. It *almost* worked. 
During installation, the only glitch was the install screen wigging out 
for a few minutes. The when I booted it, it got the login prompt ok, 
but when I tried to login as root, it said "login login login login" 
and then asked me to login again. I was never able to get into it, 
although I could get up in single user mode.

Warning: VirtualPC does *NOT* like to have two different "C:" drives. 
Maybe there's a patch, but the basic VPC install crashes when you try 
to switch between existing C: drives. I lost my whole win95 install, 
and had to resintall from scratch.

-Capt Avram Dorfman
Chief, Network Operations
email: dorfman@pentagon.mil
(last resort email: avram@pobox.com)

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On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> 
> I apologize for the semi-offtopic nature of this message in advance.
> 
> I've recently gotten VirtualPC (Win 95 version) and I'm interested in
> trying NetBSD-x86 on it.  Since I have no ethernet connection here at
> home, the fact that the PCI bridge stuff may not recognize it really
> doesn't matter much.
> 
> I think I can get the basic installation, just by following the install
> notes, but I'm wondering what differences there will be because of using
> VPC rather than a real hardware PC, as far as getting the basic system set
> up....  So, does anybody who has tried it have any tips/warnings on
> configuring VPC for use with NetBSD?
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> David
> 
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