Installing Libranet in VMware ?

[Michael Hipp]

Leon Goldstein wrote:

> It's been a while since I installed Lib 2.7, but its installer is text 
> until after X is configured.
> (The download version may be a bit different from the original.)  Does 
> Lib 2.7's installer just not boot up, or does it hang at some point, 
> e.g. configuring X?

The text-mode installer starts up just fine. It does a couple of intro 
screens, asks for keyboard type, then does "scanning for disks" but 
comes up with an error "Unable to open /dev/sda - unrecognised disk 
label." I click 'ok', then it says "No partitionable disk drives have 
been detected. Please make sure that your disk controller(s) have been 
detected." I click ok. Then I'm in a loop at 'Partition and layout 
drives' but can never do 'Setup drives' as it always comes back to the 
above errors.

Somehow it's not recognizing the scsi emulation within vmware, I 
suppose. Tried the install without specifying 'scsi' at the install 
prompt, but it says basically same thing about hda.

I'd really like to try the latest Libranet version 2.8.1 but I don't 
have a copy and not ready to plunk the $ until I'm convinced it's a keeper.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael