I am not having a good experience with vmware. Twice I have tried it today and it locks up my machine. First attempt was to install centos 4.5 i386. It told me it could not find anything to install on. After a post to the list I was instructed to not do typical, but custom and select LSILogic as the controller. I did and I got past that point. I then goto into an install with 6 minutes remaining on screen and another lock up. Anyone else experiences this with vmware. Is it something I am not doing or its just not going to work for me? I have a stock centos 4.5 X86 AMD X2 as my host and was installing a centos 4.5 i386 guest. Thanks, I was almost there. Jerry
> Anyone else experiences this with vmware. Is it something I am notdoing or its just not going to work for me? I've gotten it to work before. From a hazy memory all I had to do was select RedHat 4 as a system type, and run the installer in text mode. The VMWare forums have a ton of good information, did you try searching there? http://communities.vmware.com/index.jspa Oh and check the premade images VMWare offers. They call them appliances, but they are just premade images. http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ I know they have CentOS5. Patrick