On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Frank Hale wrote:
> > If you're planning on making a distribution based on Red Hat, two
> > things will simplify your life greatly.
> >
> > 1) VMware
> > 2) CDRW media instead of CDR media. No coasters.
> >
> > Hope this helps you out.
>
> Thank you, I promptly downloaded VMware evaluation, dug out my CDRW's
> which had been collecting dust (I thought they were a windows only
> thing). Erase one of them, burned my custom dist onto it and loaded in
> up in VMware. Really cool!!! This is the coolest thing since sliced
> bread. Now if I can only get it VMware to boot from an iso image (make
> it think its a cd) that way I won't have to burn a CDRW everytime. Then
> that will be cool!!
You can ... sort of. Do a "hard disk" install.
You need a boot floppy and NO cdrom mounted (or at least not defined to
vmware). Define the disk on which your redhat files reside as a "raw disk"
to vmware. Then boot the floppy, select hard disk install and specify the
partition. This has worked for me and installs lots faster than off a cdrom.
Gene
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