I was able to install Mandrake 9.0 beta 1 easily on VMware. I had no troubles with the install to speak of (except that silly message about the wrong install source, when you're installing off CD).
Beta 2 is a different matter, though. I boot it off the CD and it begins the install, but then: in second stage install Please wait while probling serial ports... <snip> bunch of stuff flies across the screen while X tries to start X crashes, taking me back to the console... </snip> XF86Config: /tmp/Xconf (**) stands for supplied. (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: disabled (**) Mouse: zaxismapping: (-)4 (+)5 (**) VGA16: Graphics device ID: "Generic VGA" (**) VGA16: Monitor ID: "monitor" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts:unscaled" Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb' (--) VGA16: PCI: Unknown vendor (0x15ad) Unknown chipset (0x0405) rev 0, memory @ 0xfc000000, 0xfb000000, I/O @ 0x10c0 (**) VGA16: chipset: generic (--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k) (--) VGA16: clocks: 25.00 28.32 25.00 25.00 (--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 MHz (**) VGA16: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 28.300, clock used = 28.322 (--) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 640x480 error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy install exited abnormally :-( received signal 11 sending termination signals...done I'm not sure, but it looks like two files are missing in the install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy vmware's virtual video driver is supported in the latest XFree86 (4.2+), and in any case, VGA mode should work fine without anything special. Any ideas? I always like to install Mandrake in VMware first, before putting it on my production machine "for real"... ;-) TIA Fred -- -- Fred Laxton My contact information: http://infotechdesign.net/my_contact_information.htm Powered by Yellow Dog Linux and Mandrake Linux
