RHL 9 and VMWare?

[John Dalbec]

I installed Red Hat Linux 9 from DVD onto a VMWare 3.2.1 machine in order to be 
able to build Red Hat Linux 9 packages when Red Hat drops support at the end of 
the month.  I keep getting disk errors when depmod runs.  Windows (host OS) 
doesn't show any disk errors so I assume it's a bad interaction between the 
Linux kernel and VMWare.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Any fixes?
Thanks,
John