Re: RH9 second ISO image problem

["quetzco\ inwind\ it" <quetzco inwind it>]

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> quetzco inwind it wrote:
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> >Hy Alex,
> >I've forgotten to say that I'm using VMware under XP professional.
> >Bye
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> >Antonio
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> Hi Antonio
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> I've found a possible fix.... but first, can I request that you don't 
> top-post? i.e. reply below the text you are replying to, not above. Top 
> posting makes following a thread difficult.... (I have chopped off the 
> rest of the thread so it is obvious that I am replying to your text above)
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> Now, I've found some interesting info: go to 
> http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/22329.html and search for 
> "Got a sucessful install last night". Basically, the gist is to have 
> vmWare mount the ISO file directly, and not isntall with an actual CD. 
> My problem is that I wanted to do it this way, but couldn't find a way 
> to make VMware let me change the ISO image which was mounted while the 
> linux virtual machine was running! Let me know if you have any luck.
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> Btw Antonio, eres espanol?
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> alex
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Hi Alex,
Sorry for the previous badly formatted reply.
I've found an explanation in the VMWare Knowledge base.
I'm attaching their reply so you can try like I'm actually doing:
----------------------------------------VMWare reply-----------------------------------------------------------
The Red Hat installer may fail to read the second installation CD correctly if the CD drive in your virtual machine is set up using the VMware Workstation defaults. 

The specific failure message depends on the set of packages you choose to install. In many cases, the first package the installer tries to read from the second CD is the XPDF package, so the error message reports a problem with xpdf-[version number]. 

You can force the installer to read the second CD correctly by taking the following steps: 

When the installer asks for the second CD, remove the first CD from the drive and leave the drive empty. 
Tell the installer to continue. It closes the CD drive tray, then gives an error message when it finds no CD. 
Insert the second CD and tell the installer to continue. It should read the second CD correctly and installation should continue with no problems. 
--------------------------------End of VMWare reply---------------------------------------------------------
I hope it could be useful.

I'm italian.

Bye 

Antonio