[CentOS] CentOS5 and VMware

Tue May 22 18:00:47 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Warren Young wrote:
> 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.

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.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com