[KLUG Members] VMWare installation question

[Bruce Smith]

> I'm biting the bullet and trying VMWare on my Win2K laptop. Last night I
> downloaded the trial 3.0 version and got to the point of installing Red Hat
> 7.2 in my virtual machine. I got kind of nervous when it talked about
> partitioning and using grub or lilo. I'm not too familiar with what it's
> doing here and the manual makes no reference what to do regarding the boot
> partition or grub or lilo. Anybody out there know? The only reference the
> manual makes is "Allow automatic partioning of the disk to occur in the
> Automatic Partioning screen".

Disclaimer:  I've never run VMware on Windows.  I believe the base OS
should be the most stable one, so I run VMware on Linux and install
Windows in a virtual machine.  I take no responsibility if my advice
causes data loss or any other problems!   :-)

So, _assuming_ things work the same way for VMware on Windows, as they
do for VMware on Linux:

As long as you're installing to a VIRTUAL DISK (not a physical hard
drive or partition) you should be safe to take the defaults for grub
(or lilo).  A virtual disk is really just a file inside your normal
filesystem that appears to be it's own disk to the guest OS.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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