Installing Fedora 2 in VMWare 4.5.2

[Leonard Isham]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:23:00 +0200, Alexis Aloneftis
<aaloneft at spidernet.com.cy> wrote:
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> Hi anyone 
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> 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? 
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> Thanks 
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> AA 
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I beleive that you need the VMWare video drivers from thiir web site.

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Leonard Isham, CISSP 
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