Oh pfew !
That is good news in a way. I just added 256MB more RAM... Anyway, what do I do to slow down the CD drive access ? -AEF On Saturday 07 September 2002 04:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
