Mandrake Linux 9.2

Be sure to read General Installation Instructions for All VMware Products and this section before installing this operating system.

The easiest method of installing Mandrake Linux 9.2 in a virtual machine is to use the standard Mandrake Linux distribution CD. The notes below describe an installation using the standard distribution CD; however, installing Mandrake Linux 9.2 via the boot floppy/network method is supported as well. If your VMware product supports it, you can also install from a PXE server.

Fulfill these requirements before you install Mandrake Linux 9.2:

•	Create and configure a new virtual machine.

Consider these support and configuration issues for Mandrake Linux 9.2:

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During the Mandrake Linux 9.2 installation, you are offered a choice of XFree86 X servers. You can choose either one, but do not run that X server. Instead, to get an accelerated SVGA X server running inside the virtual machine, you should install the VMware Tools package immediately after installing Mandriva Linux 9.2.

•	With many Linux guest operating systems, various problems have been observed when the BusLogic virtual SCSI adapter is used with VMware virtual machines. VMware recommends that you use the LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter with this guest operating system.

Installation Steps

1	Insert the Mandrake Linux 9.2 CD in the CD-ROM drive.

2	Power on the virtual machine.

3	Install this operating system as you would on a physical machine.

The following steps include only those steps that are specific to installing this guest on a VMware virtual machine.

4	Click in the opening screen and press F1 to install using text mode.

5	At the command line, type text and press Enter.

6	In the DrakX Partitioning wizard found the following solutions screen, select Use free space and select Next.

Unless you have special disk requirements, let Mandrake Linux allocate the space.

7	When you reach the Package Group Selection screen, select the type of computer on which you installed your VMware product.

If you installed your VMware product on a laptop computer, make the following selections:

a	Click Advanced.

b	Select Individual package selection and select Next.

c	Scroll to numlock and deselect the asterisk and select Next.

If you do not disable numlock when you install the guest on a laptop, the number lock is always active in the guest. You cannot disable it by pressing the Num Lock key.

8	When you reach the Summary screen, select Graphical interface and select Do.

9	Make the following selections for the graphical interface:

•	A monitor for the guest

•	VMware virtual video card

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XFree 4.3

•	The resolution and refresh rate for the guest

•	No to not test the configuration

•	No to not start X when you reboot

When you complete the graphical interface selections, the Summary screen reappears.

10	In the Summary screen, select Next .

11	Select No to not install updates to the packages.

12	Select Reboot to complete the basic installation of the Mandrake Linux 9.2 guest operating system.

This completes basic installation of the Mandrake Linux 9.2 guest operating system.

VMware Tools

Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For an overview of VMware Tools and for a listing of the manuals that contain instructions for installing VMware Tools in your guest, see knowledge base article 340 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340.

With a Mandrake Linux 9.2 guest, you should install VMware Tools from the Linux console. Do not start X until you have installed VMware Tools.

 

Note As you are installing and configuring VMware Tools, the configuration program asks for the location of lspci. When that prompt appears, enter the following path: /usr/bin/lspcidrake