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Topic: hd install on vmware 5.5

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arlie

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Posted: July 11 2006,07:03

i have a 3 gig virtual hard drive on vmware. everytime i ran cfdisk i get this error: FATA ERROR: Cannot open disk drive.

Can anyone help me on this. I was able to install older version of DSL before on vmware but it a problem with the newer versions.

Regards,
Arlie L.C.

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Posted: July 12 2006,22:42

You require root permissions to run cfidsk, try
$ sudo cfdisk

arlie

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Posted: July 13 2006,01:14

yup! i forgot the sudo. I created the partition ok.

but when i did this:

Right-click on the desktop, navigate to Apps>>Tools>>Install to Hard Drive.

when get to this point

Creating filesystem ext3...

the console quits!

Please help!

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Posted: July 13 2006,03:57

Did you create a Linux partition?
After you do, you'll probably have to restart your machine in order to re-read the partition table correctly.
(In this case, virtual machine)