OT: Anyone managed to install Gentoo Under VMware (in FC2)?

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 03:21, Alexander Apprich wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Guys,
> > 
> > 	I know this is off-topic. But I would like to play around with Gentoo
> > under a sandbox environment.
> > 
> > I currently tried to install Gentoo (2004.1) under FC2 with VNware
> > 4.5.2-8848. 
> >> Once booted into Gentoo, I do a fdisk, it will tell me that the disk is
> > not initialised and then I do a "w" and after that, I reboot, (nothing
> > else), then VMware will just hang there and do nothing else.
> > 
> > I even tried installing it all the way to the end but it proved to be
> > pointless.
> > 
> > Anyone has a clue??
> > 
> 
> Not that I'm really into gentoo, but have you tried booting in your
> VMware from a rescue CD and then create a single partition before you
> install gentoo? Don't know if fdisk will just initialize a disk...

I just tried again last night using Gentoo 2004.2.

Not sure if it's because of the new version or something else but now it
works [tm].

SO.. I'm happy to an extent. (more learning though)

-- 
Ow Mun Heng
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