Hi Michael No, I've not done this. Should I? If so, what specs should the disk have?
Thanks Tom -----Original Message----- From: Michael Keuter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 April 2012 13:27 To: [email protected]; AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Persistent storage under VMWare Am 17.04.2012 um 10:55 schrieb Tom Chadwin: > Hello all > > I am trying to set up a VMWare instance from the geni586 image, following > the instructions at http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_vmware. When I try to > create persistent storage, either via the GUI or the CLI, I get: > > Format of drive /dev/sda failed, use fdisk manually. > > Can anyone point me towards why this happens? Ideally, I'd like to sort out > the root issue. If this is not possible, can anyone give me the parameters > for an ordinary storage configuration using fdisk? I shall double-check the > wiki to make sure I've not missed any stages in the config of the VM. > > Thanks > > Tom Hi Tom, do you have created a second virtual disk for persistent storage in VMWare? Which would be then e.g. /dev/sdb and then could formatted via the setup routine. Michael http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
