Installing Fedora 2 in VMWare 4.5.2

[John Thompson]

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Alexis Aloneftis wrote:

| I am not at all a Unix person and would very much like to learn. I
| installed Fedora Final Core 2 on my P4 PC running WinXP inside a virtual
| machine. The installer worked fine when I used at the installation boot
| prompt the text ?linux linuxresolution=1024x768? (without the quotes).
| The X-Windows GUI worked and installed fine until the end. When I
| rebooted for the first time, I noted that all services said OK except
| smartd which failed. Towards the end, when the X-Windows GUI is about to
| come up, text line which go by quickly state that a monitor cannot be
| found and I am sent to the command line for logging on.
|
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| Can anyone help to get my gui environment up?

You need to install the VMWare-tools package.  This provides (among
other things) an X server designed to work inside the virtual machine.

To install the VMware-tools package, select "VM...Install VMWare Tools"
from the main menu. This will create a "virtual" CD drive containing the
VMWare-tools package. Mount the virtual CD (mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom), unpack the vmware-tools tarball and run the installer
script, which will walk you through the process.


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- -John Thompson (john at os2.dhs.org)
~ Appleton WI USA
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