Re: Installing Fedora 2 in VMWare 4.5.2

From: Leonard Isham (leonard.isham_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/31/04

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    On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:23:00 +0200, Alexis Aloneftis
    <aaloneft@spidernet.com.cy> wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    > Hi anyone
    >
    >
    >
    > I am not at all a Unix person and would very much like to learn. I installed
    > Fedora Final Core 2 on my P4 PC running WinXP inside a virtual machine. The
    > installer worked fine when I used at the installation boot prompt the text
    > "linux linuxresolution=1024x768" (without the quotes). The X-Windows GUI
    > worked and installed fine until the end. When I rebooted for the first time,
    > I noted that all services said OK except smartd which failed. Towards the
    > end, when the X-Windows GUI is about to come up, text line which go by
    > quickly state that a monitor cannot be found and I am sent to the command
    > line for logging on.
    >
    >
    >
    > Can anyone help to get my gui environment up?
    >
    >
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > AA
    >

    I beleive that you need the VMWare video drivers from thiir web site.

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