jamison.j.b

The North American (I'm not sure if this was the case in the UK & Europe) retail release of the full Windows 98 Second Edition, used a startup floppy and a CDROM disc (the CDROM disc wasn't bootable). Although, I have seen modified images of Windows 98 that do possess the IO.sys, MSDOS.sys, Command.com, and Oakcdrom.sys files. I was trying to mount the windows 98 diskette to a VM (as a image). Using the extracted image from the diskette, via imgburn, worked fine. My thanks to you sir.

I'm trying to make my windows 98 retail floppy bootable for use in VMs. I have the full (legal) retail box of Windows 98 SE. This is the method I use to create the startup img file: - I copy all the files from the original retail startup disc to a directory (Including IO.sys and MSDOS.sys, so in total 20 files). - I drag & drop all the files into imgburn - I have checked "Include Hidden Files" and "Include System Files", then I give the ISO 9660 and UDF labels.I have "Make Image bootable" ticked. I set "Emulation Type" to Floppy 1.44MB and I extract the boot image from the original floppy, then I apply the boot image to the "Boot Image" line. Everything else is left default. I build the image as a img file. The floppy image won't boot up in either VMware Player or VirtualBox. I know I am doing something wrong in the image creation, but I'm not sure what. Suffice to say, my knowledge of image creation is quite limited. If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. IMGBURN LOG ============ I 12:14:20 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 12:14:20 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 12:14:20 Total Physical Memory: 1,039,344 KiB - Available: 768,916 KiB I 12:14:20 Initialising SPTI... I 12:14:20 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:14:20 -> Drive 1 - Info: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H LL07 (D:) (ATA) I 12:14:20 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! W 12:28:27 Device Arrival Detected! I 12:28:27 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:28:27 -> Drive 1 - Info: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H LL07 (D:) (ATA) I 12:28:28 -> Drive 2 - Info: SanDisk SanDisk Cruzer 8.02 (I:) (USB) I 12:28:28 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM and 1 Unknown! I 12:31:30 Operation Started! I 12:31:30 Building Image Tree... I 12:31:30 Checking Directory Depth... I 12:31:30 Calculating Totals... I 12:31:30 Preparing Image... I 12:31:30 Checking Path Length... I 12:31:30 Contents: 20 Files, 0 Folders I 12:31:30 Content Type: Data I 12:31:30 Data Type: MODE1/2048 I 12:31:30 File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), UDF (1.02) I 12:31:30 Volume Label: Win98_StartupDisk I 12:31:30 Size: 1,129,966 bytes I 12:31:30 Sectors: 563 I 12:31:30 Image Size: 3,276,800 bytes I 12:31:30 Image Sectors: 1,600 I 12:31:34 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:04 I 12:31:34 Operation Started! I 12:31:34 Image Contents: 20 Files, 0 Folders I 12:31:34 Image Sectors: 1,600 (MODE1/2048) I 12:31:34 Image Size: 3,276,800 bytes I 12:31:34 Image Volume Identifier: Win98_StartupDisk I 12:31:34 Image Volume Set Identifier: 466463EF00000620 I 12:31:34 Image Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER! I 12:31:34 Image Implementation Identifier: ImgBurn I 12:31:34 Image File System(s): ISO9660 (Bootable), UDF (1.02) I 12:31:34 Destination File: C:\Documents and Settings\Jamison\Desktop\Win98_StartupDisk.img I 12:31:34 Destination Free Space: 31,879,041,024 Bytes (31,131,876.00 KiB) (30,402.22 MiB) (29.69 GiB) I 12:31:34 Destination File System: NTFS I 12:31:34 File Splitting: Auto I 12:31:34 Writing Image... I 12:31:35 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:00 I 12:31:35 Average Write Rate: N/A - Maximum Write Rate: N/A