Re: Woody installation under VMWare
nate, 2003-Apr-24 00:50 -0700:
> > hello all,
> >
> > i have a problem installing woody under a windows/vmware.
> > After the first installation steps, i get a message:
> > " No hard disks found "
> > Configuration under vmware is o.k. Installing Suse is no problem!
> > VMWare Version is 3.2.0
>
> configure vmware to use IDE disks instead of SCSI.
>
> I've installed debian 3 on vmware tons of times with no problems..
>
> vmware defaults to using SCSI hard disks for some reason, not sure
> why because they apparently do not emulate the scsi bios so the
> disks are not bootable(!)
I've had no trouble installing woody on vmware using the scsi virtual
disk. I boot using cd disk #5, bf2.4, which recognizes the scsi disk
everytime. I'm using vmware 3.2.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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