[bish542002]

I followed flyakites guide and got my Multiboot/Unatteded DVD workng with WIN98SE, WIN2K, 2K3Server, XP Home, Tablet, MCE and XP PRO. Great guide flyakites, everything works just great. The only problem I got is trying to add WINME. I've serched and can't seem to get it to work at all. My setup is as below and I am using CDShell 2106.

AIO-DVD\WIN98
AIO-DVD\WINME
AIO-DVD\SETUP\XP\PRO (HOME, TBLT, WMCE, W2K and W2K3)
AIO-DVD\Setup98.IMA
AIO-DVD\ME.IMA

I am VMWare ad it starts to load the Image but then all I get this message:

Please wait while setup initializes.
Scanning system registry....
Cannot create a temporary directory.
If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive,
you will need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up Windows.

A:\

Any assistance is very appreciated

[jaclaz]

It seems to me quite strange, I mean if it does work with WIN98, and you followed the same procedure for WINME it should work with the latter also, there are no real differences between the setup routine of the two, you could try using a different VM, like QEMU/QEMUMANAGER:
http://www.davereyn.co.uk/
or VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/

It could be "something" between VMware and WINME....

jaclaz

[bish542002]

Thanks jaclaz, I'll it out and see.

[bish542002]

jaclaz, I tried both and still no luck. I'm getting the exact message. I can't find what the problem is. Anyone have an idea what could be causing this.

[kubos]

you should try to use your win98's image, but of course with diffrent path to "setup.exe" file in "autoexec.bat". just copy Setup98.IMA and open it with winimage. extract autoexec and change path. then save the image as ME.IMA.


// sorry for my english

[bish542002]

Kubos, I've been gone for awhile but I just tried editing the autoexec.bat file and I got the same error.

[jaclaz]

It seems like those errors appear when something is "not right" with the hard disk:
http://support.micro...kb/271240/en-us

Quote

Setup Cannot Write to the Temporary Directory
---------------------------------------------
This message may appear because there is insufficient disk
space for the temporary directory. If space is available
on another drive, use the following command line to change
the temporary directory location:

Setup /T:<drive letter>:\TEMP

If you do not have space available on another drive, free
some disk space, and then run Setup again. See the "Not
Enough Disk Space" Messages section for files that can be
deleted.

More specifically, this seems exactly that error you report:
http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboar...rum/164732.html

Have a look at this also:
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/ar...05l06/05l06.asp

Maybe you can use some switch of Setup to avoid the problem.

jaclaz

[bish542002]

Thanks jaclaz, I'll check it out and see if I come up with something.