[CentOS] CentOS5 and VMware

[Warren Young]

centos at 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.