On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 03:21, Alexander Apprich wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I know this is off-topic. But I would like to play around with Gentoo > > under a sandbox environment. > > > > I currently tried to install Gentoo (2004.1) under FC2 with VNware > > 4.5.2-8848. > >> Once booted into Gentoo, I do a fdisk, it will tell me that the disk is > > not initialised and then I do a "w" and after that, I reboot, (nothing > > else), then VMware will just hang there and do nothing else. > > > > I even tried installing it all the way to the end but it proved to be > > pointless. > > > > Anyone has a clue?? > > > > Not that I'm really into gentoo, but have you tried booting in your > VMware from a rescue CD and then create a single partition before you > install gentoo? Don't know if fdisk will just initialize a disk... I just tried again last night using Gentoo 2004.2. Not sure if it's because of the new version or something else but now it works [tm]. SO.. I'm happy to an extent. (more learning though) -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 10:33:50 up 1:52, 4 users, load average: 0.88, 1.21, 1.21
