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6. In the Package Group Selection screen, select Software Development. If you
select Select individual packages, be sure to include the gcc compiler. You will
need it during installation of VMware Tools.
7. You may see a warning 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. Select 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.
8. Allow automatic partitioning of the disk to occur in the Automatic Partitioning
screen.
9. If your host operating system supports DHCP and is connected to a LAN, then in
the Network Configuration screen, select the Use bootp/dhcp option.
10. In the Video Card Selection screen, choose any card from the list.
11. In the Video Card Configuration screen, choose Skip X Configuration.
12. Log in to the Red Hat 7.3 guest operating system as root and add a symbolic link
that is needed for successful installation of VMWare Tools.
ln -s /usr/src/linux2.4 /usr/src/linux
13. This completes basic installation of the Red Hat Linux 7.3 guest operating
system. Be sure to install VMware Tools in your virtual machine. For details, see
Installing VMware Tools and the Network Driver in the Guest Operating System
on page 73.
Note: With a Red Hat Linux 7.3 guest, you should install VMware Tools from the
Linux console. Do not start X until you have installed VMware Tools.
Known Issues
On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver in the
guest operating system. Guest screen savers that demand a lot of processing power
can cause the X server on the host to freeze.
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