In message <20010606170331.G55379-100000@blackhole.invisible.ca>, "Jared D. McN
eill" writes:
>On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Brad Spencer wrote:
>> I can't help much, but with a NetBSD/1.5.1_BETA, I was completely
>> unsuccessful in booting a "system" MS-WINDOWS 98 floppy under VMware [one
>> created on another MS-WINDOWS 98 box, with what should be a generic ATAPI
>> CDROM driver].  It hung trying to get to the COMMAND.COM prompt [after
>> hanging trying to probe devices that didn't exist, those are simple to
>> remove from the config.sys file, however].  I didn't have a MS-WINDOWS 98
>[ snip ]
>
>FWIW, I was having the _exact_ same problem with -current and Windows 98.
>NT's installer got a bit farther, but eventually blue-screened.
>
>Using 1.5.1_BETA2, Windows NT 4 Workstation is running like a charm (and
>the Windows 98 boot disk I made worked fine).
>

That's good to hear -- I also saw that failure with 1.5.1b1.  I've 
upgrade to b2; I'll have to try vmware again.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb