I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem.
I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD for Xorg.
Any suggestion?
centos@911networks.com wrote:
I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem.
I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD for Xorg.
Any suggestion?
Download the DVD, since there's no value in swapping disks with a VM. You can ask VMware to treat the raw ISO image as a real DVD-ROM drive, so you don't have to have any kind of optical drive in the VM host server machine.
I've built several CentOS5 VM directly from the DVD .iso on VMware ESX Server.
On 5/22/07, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:
centos@911networks.com wrote:
I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem.
I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD for Xorg.
Any suggestion?
Download the DVD, since there's no value in swapping disks with a VM. You can ask VMware to treat the raw ISO image as a real DVD-ROM drive, so you don't have to have any kind of optical drive in the VM host server machine. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Warren Young wrote:
centos@911networks.com wrote:
I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem.
I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD for Xorg. Any suggestion?
Download the DVD, since there's no value in swapping disks with a VM. You can ask VMware to treat the raw ISO image as a real DVD-ROM drive, so you don't have to have any kind of optical drive in the VM host server machine.
You can also put the cd iso images under an NFS-exported directory, boot the first one (virtually if you want) with 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt and fill in the NFS server info as you would with a physical machine. But, the dvd is easier.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, centos@911networks.com wrote:
I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem.
WMware will allow you to use ISO's directly instead of having to use real CD's.
For multiple ISO use, when you get the insert next CD messages, you just change which ISO the CD points to. It has been a while since I've done this, so I don't remember if you need to put a disconnect before the swap and a reconnect after the swap, but that may be the case.
Unless you just WANT to download the DVD iso you don't have to; it's just a little more work to do it with 6 iso's.
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