[WBEL-users] Whitebox EL 4 in VMware

Daniel J. Summers daniel at djs-consulting.com
Sat Jun 4 16:09:34 CDT 2005


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Erik Williamson wrote:

> Julian Parker wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Has anyone got WBEL 4 to be installed as a guest OS in VMware?
>>
>> I've been using respin 1 for a while now and had no problems installing.
>>
>> Trying to install 4 it can't find any valid disks on the system so I 
>> don't get very far...
>>
>> Anyone out there tried it yet?
>>
>>
> Which version of VMware were you using?
>
> With VMware 4.x I havd to pick 'custom' when creating the virtual 
> machine so that I could tell it to make the disks IDE.
>
> With VMware 5.x, it just worked.  I think.  It's been a while...

If you're trying to upgrade the existing installation, I also remember 
something about needing to pass the "upgradeany" option to the installer 
- if the disks are full, it won't find any empty ones.


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