Re: Question for the VMware folk

["Dan Downs" <retnuh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> My workstation is Windows 2000 Pro. I have the demo for VMware W2K. I want
to install RH 7 as guest OS. (I'll try Linux as the host and W2k as guest
later.)
>
> 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 haven't installed it that way before, I've always done windows as the
guest OS. If you're using IDE hard drives, vmware can boot those, so make
sure that the setup for IDE Device 1 is going to your virtual disk and not
you're actual /dev/hda. If the setup is right, then it should be fine to
install to since linux would think that /dev/hda is an actual drive not a
virtual disk.

As long as the Guest OS setup under VMWare is pointing to a virtual disk
then it should be ok. As for fixing the error, it may just be a bad cluster
on the HD and scandisk would have picked it up too, well probably. I suggest
doing a full scandisk, and defrag, then create the virtual disk and install.

Dan Downs