Stuart Longland wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
I've been trying for about a week to get Gentoo Linux to work with Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. For some reason, it doesn't see the floppy drive, and no matter how many hard drives I create, Gentoo only sees one of them. Has anyone here been able to load a Gentoo guest on it?
Hi, I have a feeling this is more a Linux Kernel thing than a Gentoo thing... Anyway. Have you tried other distributions (i.e. a live CD like Knoppix/Gnoppix clones, Adios, Mandrake DemoLinux, SuSE LiveEval) to see if they work? It could be that there's some magic in Microsoft's BIOS that Linux isn't quite understanding, and thus is giving you grief.
Well ... Knoppix boots, but the "knx2hd" doesn't see the virtual hard drives correctly. I forget what Fedora Core 3 did, but it wouldn't install either. The closest I came was to boot Knoppix, partition the virtual hard drives and copy the stuff in from the floppy, then boot the Gentoo LiveCD. But that croaked somewhere too.
I downloaded Virtual PC when Microsoft first released it. I compared it side by side with VMWare Workstation and it seemed to do everything VMWare did. Now it doesn't. It might have something to do with XP Service Pack Two ... or it might just be Microsoft got tired of answering Linux questions and crippled it so it wouldn't work with Linux. They never did support Linux guests officially, but I had it working at one point.
I'm going to make one last attempt using Fedora, then I'm going to give up on it.
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