On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Glenn Story wrote: > Vmware claims not to support Fedora, but I thought' I'd try it anyway. > It boots from the installation CD but after the install, at the start > of the boot process I get the message: > > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:07.1 > ... > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > btw, I am successfully running RedHat AWS3 as well as Suse 9 (both of > which have a 2.4 kernel). > > I'm running vmware 4.0 Workstation. Which one are you trying to install? FC1? FC2? FC3? <vmware users might have a better answer but> - you might need vmware 4.5.2 for 2.6 kernel based distros (FC2/FC3) - I've seen folks install off iso images on disk - instead of 'CDs' for install within vmware. Satish