Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#1478 closed defect (duplicate)
W98 failed to complete install
| Reported by: | GTrax | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 1.6.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
My W98 install CD is not directly bootable, so I had to use a W98 startup floppy. It starts, but kept hanging when the "1. Start with CDROM support" option was selected.
My next attempt was to boot a DOS 6.22 startup floppy, format the c: drive, and make a autoexec.bat and config.sys with a Samsung sscdrom.sys driver for the CD. This actually worked. Drive D: was the CDROM, and the Windows98 install CD file "D:\SETUP.EXE" could be run.
The install process appeared to be normal, even doing a "restart computer" until the "Setting up Control Panel" section, when it claimed error on finding A:
I tried again, and this time, it nearly went all the way,setting Region, Date and Timezone. Finally entered "Updating System Settings" where it seemed to take a very long time doing very little, until finally it quit with a fatal exception.
During re-starts, I had to have the boot floppy ejected to allow it to boot from its drive C:
The media seems to install OK on a native PC.
Unless there are known issues that affect W98 installs I should be aware of, I may try again with a different (bootable) W98 CD disk.
