When you??™re satisfied,
click the Finish button. The
wizard closes, and a listing for
the virtual machine appears in
the Virtual PC Console:
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Install the Operating System
With your virtual machine created, you??™re ready to install the OS. This example uses
the Xandros distribution of Linux as the OS, but the steps are similar for other OSes.
Follow these steps:
In the Virtual PC Console, click the virtual machine you just created (it may
be selected already), and then click the Start button.
The virtual machine starts, and then tries to boot itself (see Figure 23-1). As yet,
there??™s no OS installed, and no CD or DVD, so it tries to boot from the network.
It then fails and gives you the message ???Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device.??? Don??™t worry??”this is normal.
If you??™re quick, you may be able to insert the CD or DVD as soon as the virtual machine starts,
and then choose CD | Use Physical Drive Letter (where Letter is the letter assigned to the PC??™s
optical drive) before the virtual machine notices it doesn??™t have an OS. Generally, though, it??™s
easier to insert the disc at your leisure, and then restart the virtual machine. Another option is
to insert the disc before you start the virtual machine??”but if you do this, you usually have to
deal with an AutoPlay dialog box when Windows reads the disc.
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