Re: [Info-Ingres] Installing VMware and fedora on a laptop

Martin,

You need create a VM with Advanced Mode and when create a disk choose a
IDE option.


Carlos Doki

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 19:37 +0100, Martin Bowes wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Seeing as how there has been a recent thread on VMware and ingres....
>
> I've installed VMware on my cool new laptop and told it I was aiming
> to install redhat. The idea being that eventually I'd download the
> Ingres Opensource and play with it on the laptop.
>
> So it promptly reserved an 8G flat file for the redhat install. I can
> see that file on the laptop as
> C:\Virtual Machines\Red Hat Linux\Red Hat Linux-flat
>
> So far so good.
>
> I got a fresh download of fedora6-i386-DVD.iso onto a DVD.
>
> I then tried to install it on the VMWare. Anaconda fired up, saw the
> DVD and wanted to install it, but having selected the 'Use free space
> on selected drives and create default layout', pressed the 'Next'
> button it responds with 'No drives found'.
>
> Bugger!
>
> It will not allow me to use the 'Select the drives to use for this
> installation'. Furthermore, this is the case, whether or not I tick
> the 'Review and modify partitioning layout' option.
>
> Anyone got any idea what I've done wrong? Coz I've beenplaying with it
> for an hour or so and gotten precisely no where.
>
> Martin Bowes
>
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