using Parallels on a Mac to install

[Margaret_Doll]

Fedora 5 went on easily.

On Thursday, June 22, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote:

> I would look to the parallels website for more info.  They may require 
> a
> specific module to be loaded by the installer kernel to recognize the 
> disks.
>
> If their software virtualizes the hardware, as it appears from their 
> docs,
> then RHEL should see a drive at /dev/hda that is not truly a physical
> partition, but rather a file of some sort under the mac OS.  And it 
> should
> "just work".  Again, this should be mentioned in their docs, or on 
> their
> mailing list.
>
> Alternatively, ensure that you have the latest RHEL install disks, and 
> that
> your MD5 Checksums are correct.  I've seen many a spurious error 
> caused by
> damaged install media.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Gavin McDonald
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:15 AM
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>> Subject: using Parallels on a Mac to install
>>
>> We are using Parallels on a Mac OS 10.4 system.
>>
>> As we are installing RedHat EL 4 on the system, the RedHat 
>> installation
>> says that it cannot understand the format on hda.
>> Any ideas about why we are having problems?
>>
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