Installing Libranet in VMware ?

[Net Llama!]

Not sure if this helps, or if you've already looked, but there's quite a
bit about installing/running libranet in vmware here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=vmware%20libranet&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&lr=&num=50&hl=en
http://www.libranet.com/support/view.cgi?version=2.7&item=vmware.html


On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:

> 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
>
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