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Alexis Aloneftis wrote:
| 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?
You need to install the VMWare-tools package. This provides (among other things) an X server designed to work inside the virtual machine.
To install the VMware-tools package, select "VM...Install VMWare Tools" from the main menu. This will create a "virtual" CD drive containing the VMWare-tools package. Mount the virtual CD (mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom), unpack the vmware-tools tarball and run the installer script, which will walk you through the process.
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