Installing FC4 Test 1 - Vmware Workstation v4.5 on WinXP

To all, with a lot of help from the user community I was able to successfully install FC4 Test 1 using Vmware Workstation v4.5. Listed below are the steps I did to make it successful. FYI - The two sources of information that helped me the most were: keithmo's blog - http://kerneltrap.org/node/4030 Woodys post at - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=8923&tstart=0 Host Configuration: * Custom AMD Workstation * 512MB RAM * 80GB Internal HD * Windows XP Home with all updates * VMware 4.5.2 build-8848 Guest Configuration: * Fedora Core 4 Test 1 (downloaded .iso files) * 256MB RAM * /boot # about 250 Mbyte */swap # about 2* your memory size */ # whatever space you have left on your disk Installation: * Graphical install seems to work OK – no need for "retro" text-mode install. * Avoid the CD verification step. * Install as usual; shuffle disks and finish the installation. * Boot – runlevel 3 * Login as root. * Disable the following services for runlevel 5. #ntsysv --level 5 acpid anacron apmd atd autofs crond cups cups-config-daemon iptables isdn kudzu mdmonitor mdmpd mDNSResponder messagebus netfs nfs nfslock pcmcia portmap rhnsd rpcgssd rpcidmapd rpcsvcgssd sendmail sshd xinetd *Do the following from Woodys post at - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=8923&tstart=0 I have written a script for doing this on Mandrake 10.1 and Fedora Core 3 (both using Xorg). I have not tested on SuSE 9.2 but this should get the job done. # Backup, backup, backup! Snapshot -> Save Snapshot VM -> Install VMWare Tools # In the virtual machine: cd /root wget http://woody.linif.org/vmconffix.sh chmod a+x vmconffix.sh # Will be /media/cdrom on Fedora Core 3 mount /mnt/cdrom cd /tmp tar xzf /mnt/cdrom/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz umount /mnt/cdrom cd vmware-tools-distrib /root/vmconffix.sh /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl # Done! # To reconfigure vmware tools, run: /root/vmconffix.sh /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl The script is straight forward and commented. The issue is that vmware-config-tools.pl gets the X version by first running: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -version and it expects a response similar to: XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 Xorg instead has: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg and returns: Release Date: 18 December 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 The config file for Xorg and Xfree86 4.3 are the same format but a different name and as such we set an enviroment variable to tell vmware what file to modify. As always, use at your own risk and ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS backup first (snapshot!). Hope this helps, Woody *Update - before you log in via gui #yum -y update *reboot and log in via gui #reboot