On October 25th, 2009 AllBootDisks Visitor (not verified) says:
It is possible to mount the iso onto a virtual drive rather than burn the iso to a disk. You did not specify what virtual drive. So, I am going to assume you are running something like Parallels on a Mac and created a virtual drive for Window98.
In Parallels I am using version 4 and beta version 5 so I will describe the process with version 4.
Open Parallels.
Select the Windows98 virtual machine (assume you have already set this up)
Click the configure icon
In the configure menu select Option-boot order. Move the CD ROM drive to the top of the list using the arrow to the right side.
Then in the configure menu select Hardware-CD/DVD ROM. Make sure the boxes are checked for Enabled and Connected. Next are the icons for Real Device and Image File. Select Image File icon. Next for File click the Choose button and navigate to the location of the iso image file you have downloaded. Select it such as Windows98SE_bootdisk.iso. Interface should already be selected and will likely be IDE. Location should already be selected and will likely be IDE 0:1.
Re: Mounting vs. Burnins
It is possible to mount the iso onto a virtual drive rather than burn the iso to a disk. You did not specify what virtual drive. So, I am going to assume you are running something like Parallels on a Mac and created a virtual drive for Window98.
In Parallels I am using version 4 and beta version 5 so I will describe the process with version 4.
Open Parallels.
Select the Windows98 virtual machine (assume you have already set this up)
Click the configure icon
In the configure menu select Option-boot order. Move the CD ROM drive to the top of the list using the arrow to the right side.
Then in the configure menu select Hardware-CD/DVD ROM. Make sure the boxes are checked for Enabled and Connected. Next are the icons for Real Device and Image File. Select Image File icon. Next for File click the Choose button and navigate to the location of the iso image file you have downloaded. Select it such as Windows98SE_bootdisk.iso. Interface should already be selected and will likely be IDE. Location should already be selected and will likely be IDE 0:1.
Dale Eshelman