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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com