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Posted: July 14 2006,00:44

And did you restart after?

Then the installation *should* go through.

arlie

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Posted: July 14 2006,00:47

I kept selecting hda2 and what I have is hda1. I finally got it to install.

Thanks for your help.

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Posted: July 18 2006,13:54

I'm having problems installing into VMware as well

- VMWare 5.5, 500MB virt HD, tried as SCSI (default) and IDE.

Everytime I finish doing 'sudo cfdisk' and create a 300MB primary boot partition, I reboot, and then VMWare/PC hangs on a black screen with just a "_" on it, never finishes rebooting. I can usually get out of the virtual pc, and stop the vm at this point.

any ideas?

ghaberek

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Posted: Aug. 29 2006,19:37

You're booting to an empty virtual hard drive. :laugh:

I had the same problem.

Restart the VM, and hit F2 to enter Setup. Move over to the Boot menu and use (+) and (-) to put your boot in this order:

Removable Devices
CD-ROM Drive
Hard Drive
Network Boot

Exit, saving changes. You'll boot to the CD again. :cool:

M|(R0

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Posted: Sep. 06 2006,08:35

so i've got a question

i'm trying 2 install dsl in vmware
creating new virtual machine
conneting iso
booting
when i see desktop i'm running terminal
there: sudo su
cfdisk
creating new primary partition ext2 (type 83) on /dev/sda1
rebooting...
then again terminal and sudo su
dsl-hdinstall
-target on sda1
-bla-bla (multiuser, filesystem)
install script: creating ext2, copying files...
install bootloader? - y. goes info about partitions, but then
modinfo: ieee1394: no module by that name found <-about fire-wire
cp: missing destination file <-??
Use [G] or [L] boot loader? - g
/dev/sda does not have any corresponnding BIOS drive <- WHAT?!!!
rebooting...
i've got something like this: L 99 99 99 99 99 99...

ok, once more
as previous, but boot loader - LILO.
no warnings, rebooting
LILO....
booting
ops!
Kernel panic:VFS: unable to mount root on 08:01

any ideas?

last dsl, wmvare 5.5.1

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