Windows 98 - how to get an .exe (setup file) in VM 98 ?

[thewul]

I wanted to just see how a very old program would look like. 
For this Windows 98 is needed.
Installed it and it is running.

VMware Tools can not be installed.
I downloaded the .iso (winPre2k.iso)

However, I can't get it to mount as a CD.
Nou 'Mount" option in the context menu.

I tried something a kind sharedfolder
I tried with adding the file as CD ROM in settings of the VM

Both did not work.

Any suggestions?

thanks.

[RaSystemlord]

As for "any suggestions":

Check that Windows drive thing. Reboot.

Use copy/paste between Desktops.

Use Cloud Service, like Asus Webstorage.

Not sure if they work with Win 98 or how to make them work.

[thewul]

First of all, sorry for the delay. 
In my memory I already replied, but I do not see my reply.

Guess I started and then cancelled.
Anyway, in short, what I -thought- that I had written: Windows 98 being 1999 software, I could not things working, USB, VMware Tools, etc.
In the end I gave up.

Installed Windows XP
and from https:--packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/ (read // instead of --) 
I downloaded VMware-tools-windows-10.0.0-3000743.iso,
this all worked and the old software could be installed.

One should check https:--knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/313371 first to take note which VMware Tools fits XP (e.g. v.10.0.3 won't work)

Wasn't easy :-)

Remember?

Thanks again.

[RaSystemlord]

thewul: No problem. Sometimes this messes up the timeline: the answer can appear before the new question.

There were many things that were not even invented at Windows 95/98-times. In professional use I never used them - I had Unix and then moved to Windows NT from there. In home use Win95 was very stable - I used the last beta from Dec 94 and never upgraded - maybe that was why it was stable and others complained that Win95 was not (or they had just bad hardware, like bad RAM chips).

Yeah, installing XP is not so easy. There were no SP2, 3 or 4 deliveries back in the day. XP without any patches was eaten by worms in 15 minutes in open internet - under subnets perhaps not so quick. To install patches or SPs - well, yet again not so easy. Patches are not available and SPs cannot be installed without some patches. It was a mess - not really even intended to work ... you just needed to buy a new OS to get things with a minimum safety - money, money, money. Or perhaps somebody else than Microsoft made this tolerable - I don't know - but this was the situation initially. At the same time, you could just take the new Linux Distro .iso-file, install that in 1-2 hours and it was ready to go as 64-bit environment with large RAM - and completely safe ... this was exactly relevant with VMware computers.

I think the best part of XP was the commercial song Ray of Light by Madonna and even that was not so good.

Yes, I do remember :) .