Debian Install with VMware?

[Kappo]

Dunno if it works...I know Redhat supposedly works...but it doesnt detect my disks (no hard drives detected). Which means I cant partition it :| Has anyone got this working and if so, any ideas what I could be doing wrong? thanks in advance!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I've had debian, mandrake, and all 3 bsd's work in vmware fine. Your question confuses me though, what's the host and what's the guest OS? You mention debian in the title and then say redhat..

 

[Spyro]

Is it possible to install a linux distro from windows by using vmware?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: wizardLRU
Is it possible to install a linux distro from windows by using vmware?

I've had Debian in VMWare before, and it works fine (aside from being slow, but then maybe that was just my system). Are you sure you set up a "hard disk" for it? I prefer to use the SCSI emulation, as opposed to IDE emulation, but Linux should work with either (I think the SCSI works a bit better, though I'm not certain).

 

[Kappo]

doh, I re-read that and it does sound confusing

THe host is XP Pro and I am trying to install Debian. The problem I am getting is THIS

It simply refuses to see my virtual HD I guess. In the virtual bios it doesnt show my HD either...but that is expected as it doesnt on either my win98 or my 2k installs.
Now that I think about it, do I need to type anything at the boot: prompt? Just now thinking it may be that I am on a promise RAID (not set up as raid, its just a different bios because its the ata100, its an a7v133) bios , but I still wouldnt know what I would need to do :|

Thanks man!

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Kappo
doh, I re-read that and it does sound confusing

THe host is XP Pro and I am trying to install Debian. The problem I am getting is <a target=_top class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.kappo.com/debinstall.gif" target=blank>THIS</a> It simply refuses to see my virtual HD I guess. In the virtual bios it doesnt show my HD either...but that is expected as it doesnt on either my win98 or my 2k installs.
Now that I think about it, do I need to type anything at the boot: prompt? Just now thinking it may be that I am on a promise RAID (not set up as raid, its just a different bios because its the ata100, its an a7v133) bios , but I still wouldnt know what I would need to do :|

Thanks man!

Unless you set up VMWare to make one of your real hard disks directly available to Debian (not a good idea IMHO), it should have created a file which it uses to emulate a hard disk to the virtual machine. It also emulates the HDD controller (either an IDE one or a SCSI one), so what you're running on your host doesn't matter. I don't have VMWare installed at the moment (will try to install it tomorrow morning and see if I can come up with more suggestions), but check your virtual machine config (while it's stopped; i.e. not booted) to make sure your hard disk settings look sane. Does it even show an entry for hard disk among the other hardware items that should be listed (such as network card, floppy, cdrom, and - possibly - sound card)?

 

[Kappo]

ok, nevermind guys...im a tard tonight...I just had to type "compact" to load the PCI and SCSI drivers at the BOOT: prompt! thanks for the help though!

 

[inteltechs]

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: inteltechs

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