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Guest Operating System Installation Guide
4. Choose the language and keyboard, then in the Installation Type screen, choose
either Server or Workstation for the installation type.
A warning appears that says:
Bad partition table. The partition table on device sda
is corrupted. To create new partitions, it must be
initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on the
drive.
This does not mean that anything is wrong with the hard drive on your physical
computer. It simply means that the virtual hard drive in your virtual machine
needs to be partitioned and formatted. Click the Initialize button and press
Enter. Also note that sda appears in the message as the device name if the
virtual disk in question is a SCSI disk; if the virtual disk is an IDE drive, hda
appears in the message as the device name instead.
5. Allow automatic partitioning of the disk to occur in the Automatic Partitioning
screen.
6. If your computer is connected to a LAN that provides DHCP support, then in the
Network Configuration screen, you may select the option Use bootp/dhcp. If
you prefer, you may also set the networking parameters manually.
7. In the Mouse Selection screen, choose Generic – 3 Button Mouse (PS/2) and
select the option Emulate 3 Buttons for three-button mouse support in the
virtual machine.
8. In the Video Card Selection screen, choose the default selection.
9. During the configuration of the X server, select the defaults and proceed
through this section as quickly as possible, as this X server is replaced by an X
server specific to your guest operating system when you install VMware Tools in
this virtual machine.
10. Continue to the Starting X screen and click the Skip button to skip testing the
configuration.
This completes basic installation of the Red Hat Linux 7.1 guest operating system.
VMware Tools
Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the
manual for your VMware product or follow the appropriate link in the knowledge base
article at www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=340.
Do not start X until you have installed VMware Tools.
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