[PLUG] VMware or IDE Drive problem?

[Carlos Konstanski]

You can dd the contents of a cd or dvd to an iso file, and tell vmware
that this iso file is your "cd drive".  In fact, this is preferable to
using an actual cdrom drive, as it is much faster to install an OS from.

Carlos Konstanski

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:01:42 -0700
> From: Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: PLUG List <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: [PLUG] VMware or IDE Drive problem?
> 
> I've created my first virtual machine. When I try to install Win98SE the 
> mother board starts beeping -- the same one-second-on, one-second-off beep I 
> got with the other mother board when I was trying to install SuSE 10.1.
>
> I can shut everything down cleanly, and when I power off the machine, the 
> beeping goes away. When I power back on, the machine acts normally.
>
> I tried changing the drive the virtual machine looks for from hdd, my DVD 
> reader, to hdc, my CD-RW burner, but got the same results.
>
> I haven't had a reason to use either drive since the SuSE 10.1 installation, 
> so I put a CD in the DVD drive to see what would happen. SuSE popped up a 
> window asking me if I wanted to open the CD in a new window, and when I said 
> yes, it opened a Konqueror file browser window that displayed the correct 
> contents of the CD. I get the same results with the CD-RW drive.
>
> So now I'm wondering if there's something odd about my drives, and there 
> really wasn't anything wrong with the other mother board.
>
> But, the bigger question is, how do I trouble shoot this thing, or find a 
> work around. If I can read the CD's, I can copy the contents as an ISO file 
> to the hard drive and point VMware there, right?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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