Fedora Core 4 on Vmware help needed

Bryan Elliott redhat at zoinkz.com
Wed Jun 22 14:07:01 UTC 2005


bozidar at mt.net.mk wrote:

> I have been laboring with the installation of FC4 for the past 3 days 
> on Vmware with ZERO success.
> I have downloaded the FC4 DVD and CD ISO images, and verified the 
> checksums.
>
> I tried to install FC4 on Vmware virtual machine, using first on GSX 
> Server, then on Workstation 4.5 and finally on Workstation 5.0. On all 
> three platforms i get the same problems:
>
> When using the DVD ISO image, the installer claims that there is no 
> Installation CD
> When using the CD ISO image, anaconda fails miserably with message 
> "install exited abnormally"
>
> I tried the following options on boot:
> linux ide=nodma
> linux noprobe
> linux nofb
> linux text
>
> Nothing works.
>
> Please, this is becoming truly ridiculous, especially since i have 
> installed FC2, RHEL, WhiteBox Linux without any problems on all these 
> vmware versions 

To get fedora to install on my vm server I have to shut down all other 
machines on my server and do the install. Then all is well. Not sure and 
have called vm about it but no answer yet.

Bryan.




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