Re: Re[2]: [CentOS] Installing Centos4.3 in VMWare on XP

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On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 08:54 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > William Hooper wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> >>
> >>> Azil Adi Permana wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> but  this trick cannot be used with VMWare Player, since i use this
> >>>> to minimizing my desktop's memory.
> >>>
> >>> You cannot install a system with vmware player.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why not?  Editing the config file to point to the ISO is all you need.
> >>
> >
> > Since when does vmware player(!) allow for the creation of vmware vmdks?
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >
> > Again: You need either a prebuilt vmdk image or one of the other vmware
> > products to create vmdks. vmware player can not do that.
> 
> Creating a vmdk is completely different then "install[ing] a system". 
> There are a number of vmdk's available (some from VMWare, some from other
> sources) that one could reformat quite easily.
> 

On that note, our own Karanbir Singh (z00dax) has created a VMWare
Player image that one can install too.  We used to use it before VMWare
Server Beta was released for free.

Now I just use VMWare Server since it is free.

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