On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:48:56AM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: > another idea i had was to try with thomas's ide replacement driver > to see if it helps with vmware virtual cdrom, but i THINK > the floppy img is for r5 only and it won't work with dano... > thomas? can you comment on it? ok, i answer to myself: due to being unable to pass the boot screen, i decided to try with my old trusty R5-Pro, so i put the cd in my dvd drive and let vmware boot straight from it. After i disabled everything from the boot menu i finally passed the boot screen and got to the installer, even without the ide replacement floppy. So, in the end, it seems the problem lays somewhere between how vmware handle the cdrom image and normal beos boot code. IMHO it's a vmware issue, cause when you select to use an iso image as a normal cd drive the emulator should completely fake a real cd drive and let the os do whatever it wants with it. So now, the next problem is to burn dano iso and try with it, but if a remember correctly there wer some problems trying to burn a beos iso... We will see... anyway, thank you. -- Paolo Italian FreeBSD User Group: http://www.gufi.org