Yes I understand that. But I've never used it to install Linux before. On top of that, I don't really know how do use Linux fdisk, format in Solaris, yes, fdisk in Linux, no.
-----Original Message----- From: Sinner from the Prairy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Gentoo linux On Dimecres 27 Mar� 2002 09:55 am, Vestal, Roy L. wrote: > I'm trying toset it up in VMWare. This is the first time I'm using a "non" > distro, and I'm used to HardDrake and Disk Druid. I'm having problems > modprobing my hdd. VMware is showing it as a SCSI, and the PCI detect found > a buslogic and scsi_mod, but I've tried both and don't seem to be getting > anywhere. When I run fdisk /dev/sda it doesn't find it. You know that vmware sets up a "fake" system, don't you? When you install (Anything) on top of vmware, the distribution will see the (fake/virtual) PC set up by VmWare. And this PC has nothing to do with the PC that you own. Salut, Sinner -- "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" RedHat QA Test Engineer -- Running RedHat 7.2 on i386smp http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
