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dehuszar
12-10-2002, 05:56 PM
Has anyone toyed around with VMWare with Mandrake 9.0 as the host? It seems that only version 8.2 is supported, thought the sales rep sheepishly asserted that some have reported some success but it wouldn't be supported.

The first time through the install I hosed my system. The boot sequence froze on the ethernet port and I didn't know how to undo what was done (being a total noob). In addition to using mdk9 I'm also using the latest cooker 2420-1 as that's the only way I could get my nforce board to boot. (feel free to email me if you want help in that arena)

Any ideas, input, experience with the matter?

Thanks,
Sam
drsatch
02-12-2003, 08:08 AM
it's working nicely here on 9.0
dehuszar
02-12-2003, 01:31 PM
Well sure, it works on 'plain vanilla' 9.0, but my nForce motherboard doesn't. I'm running MDK 9.0 with the 2420-1 cooker. That's where the problems come in. And like many stupid stupid companies like Lotus/IBM, they won't help you get the demo working unless you drop cash on the full program.

Not quite forward thinking.

Any ideas or success stories with this cooker?

Thanks in advance,
Sam
Nu-Bee
02-13-2003, 02:05 AM
Originally posted by dehuszar
Has anyone toyed around with VMWare with Mandrake 9.0 as the host? It seems that only version 8.2 is supported, thought the sales rep sheepishly asserted that some have reported some success but it wouldn't be supported.

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Any ideas, input, experience with the matter?


I had Win98 running in VMWare on Mdk 9.0 no problem.

On the other hand Red Hat wouldn't install in it, or in VirtualPC on WinXP.
drsatch
02-13-2003, 03:33 AM
nForce motherboard was a problem for me in 9.0. It would hang at boot. I saw 9.1 beta out and it boots fine. The 9.0 with VMware installed is not an nForce motherboard.
dehuszar
02-13-2003, 01:27 PM
Originally posted by drsatch
nForce motherboard was a problem for me in 9.0. It would hang at boot. I saw 9.1 beta out and it boots fine. The 9.0 with VMware installed is not an nForce motherboard.

Yes, the Cooker I'm using to help me run Linux on my nForce board is essentially an early draft of that beta. However, I'm probably no better off with the beta than my current cooker. Until the final ISO release of 9.1, I'm probably going to sit tight and do without.

I'm not sure what to make of your final statement other that it is most certainly true. :D

Sam