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Setup & Installation / eCS inside VMware (seinst problem)
« 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
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