It's vSphere5 (is that is an answer to your question). Should that make a
difference?

Thanks

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Lonnie Abelbeck [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 17 April 2012 13:14
To: AstLinux Users Mailing List
Cc: Tom Chadwin
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Persistent storage under VMWare

Hi Tom,

What VMware are you using?  It just worked for me. (VMware Fusion 3.1.2)

Possibly you have disk options when setting up the VM.

Sorry I don't have much for you.

Lonnie


On Apr 17, 2012, at 3:55 AM, Tom Chadwin wrote:

> 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




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