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OS/2 - Technical => Setup & Installation => Topic started by: ScottishCaptain on 2008.08.18, 00:40:32

Title: eCS inside VMware (seinst problem)
Post by: ScottishCaptain on 2008.08.18, 00:40:32
Greetings to all.

I know this question has been badgered to /death/, but hear me out first.

I'd like to install eComStation inside VMware Fusion (1.1.3). Normally this would NOT be possible, *however*...

If you specify the following lines in the VMX configuration file:
guestOS = "os2experimental"
monitor_control.vt32 = "TRUE"

Then you can boot OS/2 4.52 or eComStation (as in, the kernel won't bomb out on boot).

I can get into the eCS installer just fine, and configure/setup the system. Upon installation, however, I get the following error:

"Installing the base operating system"
"SEINST install failed"

The log file that the following dialogue (basically stating the install died) points to says:
CID0004: C:\var\cid\SEINST.exe -
C:\var\cid\RSPINST.EXE could not be executed or terminated abnormally
CID0005: C:\var\cid\SEINST.exe -
REMOTE_INSTALL_STATE = '0',
C:\var\cid\SEINST.exe completed with return code 0x1604

If I attempt to launch a commandline here and execute C:\var\cid\RSPINST.EXE, I get the following message:
SYS1804: The system cannot find the file INST32

Interestingly enough, it does NOT say this if I execute S:\CID\EXE\OS2\RSPINST.exe (it throws me into a "OS/2 4.52"-like installer).

The CD is good, I let eCS check it before installing and it checked out.

I can repeat this error every time (so it's not random). Any ideas? I'd really love to get eCS booting inside VMware, and it *does* boot- simply by the fact that I can get into the graphical installer. It just doesn't want to install for some weird reason.

-SC
Title: Re: eCS inside VMware (seinst problem)
Post by: ScottishCaptain on 2008.08.18, 00:41:29
Just as a side note:

It does this regardless of if the virtual disk drive is IDE, or SCSI (Buslogic or LSIlogic chipset). Any of these let me format and setup the drive, but it still konks at the SEINST thing.

-SV
Title: Re: eCS inside VMware (seinst problem)
Post by: ScottishCaptain on 2008.08.18, 04:23:13
Okay, scrap that.

eCS 2.0 (RC5) is running fine inside VMware Fusion 2.0 (latest beta), with guestOS="os2experimental" and monitor_control.vt32="TRUE".

-SC
Title: Re: eCS inside VMware (seinst problem)
Post by: weckart on 2008.09.17, 22:24:03
How did you get NAT to work? In other words, what is the hardware behind 'Vmware Accelerated AMD pcnet adapter"?