
76 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide
Note. When installing a Windows guest OS, you may need to press F8 or other functional keys
in a virtual machine. If you use MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboard, you have to press
Fn+F8 combination instead. You can configure you Macintosh computer in such a way that
you will not have to press the Fn key. Please refer to How to Press F1-F12 and Other Functional
Keys in MacBook and MacBook Pro in the Keyboard Shortcuts in a Virtual Machine (page 232)
topic.
To Install from a Floppy Image:
1 Select the floppy drive and open its options tab.
On the virtual machine Configuration Page (page 42) click the Floppy link to open Floppy
Options (page 175) in the Configuration Editor. In the Floppy Options tab, make sure that the
Enabled and the Connect at startup options are selected.
Specify the path to the floppy image file with the OS installation in the Image File field.
2 Start the virtual machine clicking Start
on the toolbar. Follow the installation
instructions for the operating system.
Re-Installing the Guest OS
First of all, with virtual machines, you don't have to re-install the guest OS, just create a new
virtual machine, install the guest OS and delete the old machine after moving all the necessary
data to the new one.
If, nevertheless, you want to re-install a guest OS in an old VM, please DO NOT install a guest
OS other than the one installed before. You should re-install only the SAME guest OS that was
installed previously.
If you decide to re-install or repair a guest operating system, you have to change the boot
sequence:
Open Configuration Editor by clicking any device link on the Configuration Page. Then
open the Booting Options tab of the General Options (page 160),
Set the boot sequence to [CD-ROM, Hard Disk, Floppy] or [Floppy, Hard Disk, CD-ROM], if
you installed from a CD/DVD or a floppy disk respectively.
During the installation, when the guest OS reboots for the first time, return the boot sequence to
booting from hard disk:
When the virtual machine is off, set the [Hard Disk, CD-ROM, Floppy] sequence, and start the
guest OS.
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