Re: Question for the VMware folk

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The RH gui install starts up no prob. The issue is with the hard drive.
>My vmware settings specify a 1 GB virtual hard disk. When RH install
>tells me there's something wrong with /dev/hda, I am inclined to think
>it is not referring to the virtual disk. Call me chicken, but I
>cancelled the install and decided to throw the question out to this
>list. Am I right that the install is referring to my actual hard disk?
>Or am I safe in telling the RH install program to "fix" the problem with
>hda? Has anyone else tried this setup?

I have NOT installed Linux inside VMware, but... it is normal for a brand new
disk to display an "error" upon starting RH install, as the disk contains no
valid parition table,  and RedHat thus can't detect what is (or in this case
isn't) on the disk.  VMware can be a little spooky at times, but it does do
direct IDE drive emulation, so I'd ***assume*** your OK.  If it trashes your
Win2k partition... I don't remember ever sending this message.

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