Never done Debian, but when I test drove Slackware on a VMWare machine, the 
major headache I had was realizing that VMWare creates scsi drives, not IDE.  
Since you didn't specify what you were trying, thought I would offer that up.

Kyle Faber
EMR Data Services
kyle@emr.net

On Monday 23 September 2002 03:11 pm, Bryce C wrote:
> Sorry I can't be of more help but it does work.  I used the debian net
> install cd and went through a pretty much normal install.  Even X works
> once the VMware svga driver/server is installed.  Enjoy.
>
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:26, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> > Has anyone attempted to install Debian as a virtual
> > machine under VMware, using another Linux machine as
> > the host?
> >
> > I've never installed Debian (or at least not for the
> > last three years), nor some of the other popular
> > distros, and thought it would be a useful thing to be
> > able to claim experience with installing them, also
> > with a view of possibly using them myself. (I've run
> > exclusively on Red Hat in my own environment.) I don't
> > have a spare system, but I do have ability to install
> > virtual machines under VMware using copies of the
> > software obtained from linuxiso.org. The one I'm most
> > anxious to get my head around is Debian.
> >
> > I've got the first CD, but when I boot the virtual
> > machine from the CD, it wants to install basic
> > utilities from a floppy because it thinks I don't have
> > a disk drive, even though I ran through the VMware
> > configuration wizard to create a new machine.
> >
> > That's where I stopped.
> >
> > Maybe I did something dumb in setting that up, but I
> > don't think so.
> >
> > Anyone have any clues what I should check next?
> >
> > --
> > Lynn David Newton
> > Phoenix, AZ
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