> Hi Ken,
> 
> Your floppy is the old style license correct?  

My original license is a 720k floppy from QNX 4.01. Our sales rep sent us the QNX 4.25 2003 upgrade package that came 
with a 1.4 floppy disk that was labeled "Bootable Install License Disk" and it had a bar code sticker on the back with a
 serial number and password. When that floppy didn't work the sales rep sent us a second package and the second floppy 
didn't work either. At first I chalked it up to being on a laptop with a USB floppy but licensing didn't work on two 
desktop machines that had built in floppy drives either.

>What happens if you take that 
> floppy and create a raw image of it on another QNX system using dd
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img
> 
> Then under vmware configuration point the floppy disk to that floppy image.  
> That may help.  I too thought that it should boot past the loader even if no 
> licenses were found, it seems odd that it didn't.  Try to get the license 
> thing worked out first using the floppy image.

That's a good idea, I'll give it a try.

> Another thing to try is the 
> new installation CD:
> 
> http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=18115
> 
> Its pretty much exactly the same as the June 2003 CD, however it adds support 
> for SATA drives via the Fsys.atapi driver, plus its an ISO that you can 
> download.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Erick

Thanks, I'll try that too.

> 
> P.S. Kudos for getting QNX2 on Vmware.  I admit that has been a burning 
> curiosity of mine for a while, however I just haven't had the time to test it.

QNX2 came up easy on a desktop with a 5.25" drive. The hard part was getting all my old QNX2 stuff moved from an ancient
 desktop with arcnet over to the VMWare session. Mitchell Shoenbrun helped a lot by donating his QNX2 parallel port ZIP 
driver to the cause.

> 
> 
> > Seems simple, right? After 20 or so hours of trying it just won't work for 
> me.
> > 
> > 
> > QNX2 and QNX6 are both running fine in VMWare but QNX4 just won't work.
> > 
> > I've tried every combination of VMWare 4/5/6/6.5, small or large disk size, 
> 
> > different BIOS settings (DOS vs. Other large disk access methods), etc. on 
> > three different machines including older dell single core P4 desktops, a 
> newer
> >  dell dual core P4 desktop (allocating a single core to QNX4), and a dell 
> dual
> >  core laptop (again, one core for QNX4).
> > 
> > All installs have been done in safe mode with 16 color VGA. Photon comes up 
> 
> > and the GUI installer progresses normally, but...
> > 
> > Two problems always occur. First, it can never read the license floppy. I 
> used
> >  'license' to copy licenses from a working QNX4 system to a new floppy and 
> it 
> > still can't read them.
> > 
> > OK, if the license floppy can't be read it should still boot, right?
> > 
> > Nope. The boot loader starts, the entire series boot progression dots appear
>  (
> > no weird bad block characters or anything) and then it just stops without 
> > displaying any error.
> > 
> > What's the trick here?
> 
>