Anyone else experiences this with vmware. Is it something I am not
doing or its just not going to work for me?
I've gotten it to work before. From a hazy memory all I had to do was select RedHat 4 as a system type, and run the installer in text mode.
The VMWare forums have a ton of good information, did you try searching there? http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa
Oh and check the premade images VMWare offers. They call them appliances, but they are just premade images. http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ I know they have CentOS5.
Patrick