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YouвЂ™ll now go through many screens that are part of the normal installation of Windows 98.

All subsequent boots will be from the hard disk.

This is the last time in this guide that you need to boot from CDROM.

YouвЂ™ll now see the boot menu: Choose (quickly because of timeout) вЂњ2.

Start the virtual machine by pressing the green triangle вЂњplayвЂќ button in the upper right corner of the parallels window.

Second boot/setup of Win98SE from CDROMДЄfter changing the boot order, you are now ready to perform the second boot up from CD-ROM for the Windows 98 installation. The boot order is now changed, you can proceed to the next section, and it should work.

Under boot sequence, choose: вЂњCD-ROM, Hard Disk, FloppyвЂќ, and press OK.

In the вЂњConfiguration EditorвЂќ window, Choose вЂњOptionsвЂќ on the left side, and choose вЂњBootingвЂќ on the top right side in the middle.

Here are the steps to change the boot order:

This is why it is stated in the last step of the previous section of this guide to not restart your virtual machine yet. You can only change the boot order when the virtual machine is not running. If you click OK on that screen, youвЂ™ll see a message in the DOS-like window of the virtual machine which states вЂњNo boot device available, press ENTER to continueвЂќ. If you try to boot now without changing the boot order, you will get a message from Parallels which states вЂњThere is no operating system installed on the virtual machine.вЂќ. However, if you donвЂ™t change the boot order, the virtual machine will not be able to boot from the CD-ROM. The next step of the Windows 98 installation requires you to boot from CD-ROM again. Proceed to the next section of this guide.Д¬hange the boot order for subsequent boot-ups

Do not restart the virtual machine yet.

When you click it, parallels will ask вЂњThe virtual machine is running вЂ¦ Are you sure you want to proceed?вЂќ, click вЂњYesвЂќ.

Now, click the red square in the upper right corner of the Parallels window to stop the virtual machine.

This is expected right now and is not a problem.

After you press ENTER to restart, you will see a message from parallels that says вЂњThere is no operating system installed in the virtual machineвЂќ.

It says that you should make sure the Windows 98 boot disk is in drive A, but all that is really necessary is that your CD (or CD image) is there.

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YouвЂ™ll now go through a series of screens ( 1, 2, 3, and possibly others that I didnвЂ™t screen capture) to choose various options until you are finally get a screen saying that вЂњSetup will restart your computer nowвЂќ.Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu: Choose вЂњ1.Boot Menu: Choose (quickly because of timeout) вЂњ2.dmg file.ДЇirst boot/setup of Windows 98SE from CDROMДЄfter clicking Finish on the last step, the virtual machine boots up from the CDROM. Expand the вЂњMore OptionsвЂќ on this screen in order to specify the CDROM. (Optional) You can use a disk image (.dmg) file if you have one, instead of the actual Windows 98 CD.

Optimize Screen: I chose to optimize for better performance of virtual machine.Specify Name for Virtual Machine: Enter in what you would like to call the virtual machine (I used вЂњMicrosoft Windows 98 TestвЂќ as the name of my machine).Typical Installation Window: Choose OS Type: Windows, OS Version: Windows 98.OS Installation Window: Choose вЂњTypicalвЂќ.With Finder: Applications->Parallels->Parallels Desktop.

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Get Windows Update to work by first installing IE6, SP1.

Subsequent boots/setup from Hard Disk and completion of Win98SE Install.

Second boot/setup of Win98SE from CDROM.

Change the boot order for subsequent boot-ups.

First boot/setup of Windows 98SE from CDROM.

Here are the steps to the installation (the not so obvious steps are in red): This guide will take you through all of the steps, but will spend less time on the more obvious ones, and more time on the less obvious ones. When installing Win98SE as a virtual machine, there are many obvious steps and a few not so obvious steps.

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Nevertheless, I had a need to install it because I have some older applications that I would like to run, which only run correctly on Win98SE, and not on Windows XP. Windows 98 Second Edition is an old, unstable OS that is no longer supported by Microsoft.

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It was created using Mac OS 10.4.10, Parallels Desktop 3.0 Build 5160 and a bootable Windows 98SE CDROM.

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This is a how to guide for installing Windows 98 SE as a virtual machine in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac.