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?
>
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> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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