I had the same problems...and then some. Kernel OOPS on startup, rpm install hangs. I was finally able to get a running minimal installation by using a raw disk and a real cdrom (first tried with a cdrom image and virtual disk). My guess is vmware has trouble when things get too fast...their fix for w2k+sp3 was slowing down the disk access to about 1/4 the speed it normally runs. On the other hand, I tried it on a slower system at work with beta4 (pIII/1000 instead of Athlon XP2000+) and it installed cleanly under vmware.
And on top of it, VMWare doesn't seem to let you report bugs unless you have a service contract, even if you are a beta tester. -dwild On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, allen wrote: > It is just me or is VMWare not a good idea just yet ? > > I cannot get anywhere with it for many reasons. > > I have gone through quite a number of fiddlings and > I either end up with real oddness during Select > Installation Class, Recommened and Expert both, > or if it manages to get started, it will fail trying to > install either glibc or rpm-4.0.4-17. > > What all is wrong with the vmware thing ? Is this > a very well known set of problems right now ? > > -AEF >
