[SATLUG] fedora like OS installation on vmware

[Al Castanoli]

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 21:40 -0500, phn1x wrote:
> I seem to be having trouble with a few different os's. When attempting to
> install Cent os 5, Fedora core (2-7) or any other fedora like to include
> enterprise on VMWare the installation seems to stall at "running
> anaconda....."
> 
> I attempted to install with the noprobe linux option and recieved the same
> result. Attempting to search google (2.5 hours) results in one close result,
> but very different hardware (lacking memory)
> 
> The base OS is ubuntu, on an ACER 5570 laptop. Freebsd 6.2, 5.5, redhat 7.2,
> 8.0, 9.0, and roo (honeywall cd running fedora core 6) install on vmware no
> problem. As does every version of windows. The fact that Roo installs just
> fine baffels me since it is basically the same thing.
> 
> The hardware as stated is an acer 5570, 1 gig of ram, 160gb hard drive.
> 
> Anyone encounter a similar issue with redhat like os's?

My experience is just the opposite - I can't seem to get Fedora 7 to
load on my Shuttle XPC shoebox computer as a host OS, but it loads just
fine into VMware as a guest OS.  I'm using openSUSE 10.2 as the host,
and running Fedora 7, Solaris 10_x86, Scientific Linux (built from RHEL
sources), Windows XP Pro (for my kids to run Photoshop, but they run
Linux any other time), and the current Kubuntu as guest OSes.  One thing
about the Fedora 7 install though - it runs best with at least a GB of
RAM allocated and slow as a dog with less as a guest OS, but still
wouldn't install as a host OS with 2 GB of RAM.  I also have a Knoppix
5.1 host OS loaded on the box.

Al Castanoli