[Discuss] Virtualbox

[kari at kckbiz.com]

You need to be able to boot off the install media.  The winMe disk should be bootable.  I would tell the virtual machine to access the cd directly.  It should be a setting for the cd drive within the virtual machine you set up.

Kari


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I can install from the CD/DVD drive.  The point was that what I wanted
to install wasn't bootable.  Or am I missing something altogether
different or which setting do you suggest?

Peter P

kari at kckbiz.com wrote:
> I was getting that also.
>
> Go into the settings and change the settings for the cd rom drive.
>
> Kari from Victoria
>
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> I installed Virtualbox in OpenSUSE 11.1 and also Ubuntu 8.10.  I kept
> getting an error message, "FATAL: No bootable media found; system
> halted", when attempting to install Windows ME.  
>
> The problem ended up being the fact that the version of WinME that I was
> trying to boot was an upgrade and not bootable on its own.  The CD
> 'auto-runs' but is not bootable.   An earlier version of windows or a
> floppy is required.  Trying to boot the WinME start floppy works but it
> does not show the modern CD drive. 
>
> Installing other OS's seems to work.
>
> I also tried VMware, which is more or less a 1 click install in Suse
> 11.1, but it reported that I didn't have a good enough processor.  It
> seems that an E2200 isn't enough.
>
> We talked about this at the last meeting, so I thought I would pass
> along my findings. 
>
>
> Peter P
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