[ale] Issues adding guest OS with VMWare 4.5.1

[Jonathan Glass]

--- Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I've got a Dell Latitude D600 laptop on which I'm
> running SUSE 9.1 and
> trying to install Windows 2000 Professional as a
> guest OS. I have my
> BIOS set to boot first from CD if there is one
> present the hard drive. I
> have verified this works by booting with the Windows
> 2000 CD in the
> drive.I've got a Dell Latitude D600 laptop on which
> I'm running SUSE 9.1
> and trying to install Windows 2000 Professional as a
> guest OS. I have my
> BIOS set to boot first from CD if there is one
> present the hard drive. I
> have verified this works by booting with the Windows
> 2000 CD in the
> drive.
> 
> HOWEVER...
> 
> I get prompted when booting to "Press any key to
> boot from CD". So even
> if I tell it to boot from CD first, I still have to
> hit a key or it
> defaults to booting from the hard drive.
> 
> I think this is why I'm getting an error in VMWare
> 4.5.1 about not
> finding a bootable CD. It may be that it's looking
> for that 'user
> input'.
> 
> Is there a way around this? Has anyone successfully
> installed a guest OS
> using VMWare 4.5.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 and, if
> so, how?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 
> 

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Have you clicked in the VMware environment to pass
control of the keyboard and mouse to VMware?  Then try
hitting a key.

Jonathan Glass


	
		
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