fedora 8 on vmware or virtual box

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 21:58:34 UTC 2007


On Nov 27, 2007 12:35 PM, Chatonda Mtika <cmtika at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> i'm trying to install fedora 8 as a guest on my laptop running xp. when i try vmware
> installation stalls on windows that asks if you want to test the media or skip. the
> keyboard appears unresponsive.
>
> when i use virtualbox, installation completes. however, fedora fails to boot when i
> reboot the virtual machine.
>
> any ideas?
>
> i'm using the latest versions of both virtualbox and vmware
>

I assume you are trying to install from a CD/DVD drive. Use the DVD
iso image instead. It's much faster than your CD/DVD drive plus you
won't have a sharing problem with Windows or a bad burn.




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