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  • From: "Tom Large" <tlarge AT direwolfe.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] smgl and vmware
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:26:39 -0500 (CDT)

<disoray looks sheepish>

Thanks Andy, that did the trick. I didn't even think to make it an IDE disk
when I created it.

/tlarge

> Hi,
>
> I was successfully running SMGL under vmware 3.x, however, not in Win
> but in Linux environment. But I don't think that's much a difference.
> Most important thing is to use IDE disk for booting and not SCSI which
> is default setting. And I recall I had trouble trying to make it work
> when trying booting from other disk than primary master (in vmware). I
> was just trying what is it capable to do ;-). Also you have to change
> defult lilo configuration to put bootsector to /dev/hda (or
> /devices/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc) instead of your /boot
> parition, otherwise it simply won't boot. The same is of course true
> for real system if you don't have dualboot with different boot manager
> in MBR ;-). After upgrading to 4.x it worked just fine and when I
> tried it on WinXP Pro box I use for gaming, the installation went fine
> as well. Well, I made it on the second try as the first time I forgot
> to switch disk to IDE ;-)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Tom Large wrote:
>
>> Greetings everybody!
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck running smgl inside a vmware guest OS? In my
>> case the host OS is Windows XP Pro. The install fails while trying to
>> partition the hard disk. When I shell out to use any of the three
>> (cfdisk, fdisk, parted) I can see the disk (/dev/hdc), but it's read
>> only. I'm running vmware 3.x--don't have US$100 for the 4.x upgrade.
>> Also, I've tried this with the smgl-0.6-i386.iso and
>> smgl-0.7-pre2-i386.iso images.
>>
>> To this point I've checked permissions on the virtual disk file, tried
>> various guest OS settings and mucked around with the persistency of
>> the disk. I even aliased it as SCSI, all to no avail.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> /disoray|Tom Large/
>>
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