So after being unsuccessful in using my OS 9 installed version of Win98/Virtual PC 5 in Panther I erased it all and tried to do a clean install of both programs from Panther.
I installed from the VPC5 CD and upgraded to the last update (5.0.4) and then tried the Win98 install.
It went smoothly to about 80% complete and I get an error message forcing a virtual reboot and it was unsuccessful in installing 98. So I tried again and the install process crawled. After a real Mac reboot I erased all traces of the previous attempts and did a new install of 98. Again the same thing happened.
So what does this error message mean and how do I fix/solve it so I can get the thing working in OS X. Under 9 the set up works fine but I do not want to have to keep booting into classic to use it.
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Standard mode: Bad fault in MS-DOS extender
Fault: 000D Stack Dump: 0050 0000 0070
Raw fault frame: EC: 1CD0 IP: 1407 CS: 0053 FC: 3006 SP: 007E SS: 02C7
Please remove and floppy from your drive..... any key to reboot