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iamano

Post subject: VMWare Desktop

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:26 am

Joined: Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:22 am
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Hello,

I'm a user of VMWare desktop for testing products prior to using them in production. I'm trying the NASLite product as a floppy image
(with a virtual 2.88 floppy drive, tried 1.44 as well)

And I get this error message:
VFS: insert root floppy and press enter

When I press enter I get a kernel panic, am I doing something wrong?

Kind regards,

Mike

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Tony

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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:23 pm

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Joined: Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:11 pm
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Location: Server Elements

Hi Mike,

NASLite uses a 1722K formatted floppy disk without a filesystem on it. That is the only way we can get the OS to fit on a bootable floppy. The drawback is that it will not work as a virtual device.

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jaclaz

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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:48 pm

Joined: Sat Sep 18, 2004 10:57 am
Posts: 19

You might want to try VMware's Back Virtual Floppy Driver:
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#beta

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Version 2.0 Release Candidate
NEW FEATURES

Supported image size
160KB, 180KB, 320KB, 360KB, 640KB, 720KB, 820KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, 1.68MB, 1.72MB, 2.88MB

jaclaz

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