Ubuntu in VMWare 4.5 (+ IBM X40 installs)

Harry Sufehmi milis-2 at harrysufehmi.com
Tue Oct 5 15:00:47 UTC 2004


Chris wrote:
>> Most interesting... I tried installing Ubuntu on VirtualPC and VMware 
>> 4.5, both failed.
>> On VMware 4.5 (Windows), it failed on installing the base-package, so 
>> I have no idea how to be able to install that linux-headers-* package 
>> above. Any hint ?
> 
> I haven't tried it in Windows VMware, but it should work the same.  I 
> was using a Warty daily snapshot though.  Which version of Ubuntu were 
> you installing?
> I believe I was also using an IDE virtual drive for the main drive. I 
> believe the default is SCSI which causes problems some times.

Come to think of it... yes, I think I was using SCSI virtual drive back 
then. I'll try again tomorrow with IDE virtual drive.


Thanks!
Harry








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