
Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
Support
This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:
• VMware Workstation 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2 — AS, ES, WS
• VMware GSX Server 3.0, 3.1 — AS, ES, WS
• VMware ESX Server 2.0.1, 2.1 — AS
Virtual SMP supported
• VMware VirtualCenter 1.0–1.1 — AS, ES, WS
General Installation Notes
Be sure to read General Guidelines for All VMware Products on page 13 as well as this
guide to installing your specific guest operating system.
The easiest method of installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 in a virtual machine is to
use the standard Red Hat distribution CD. The notes below describe an installation
using the standard distribution CD; however, installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 via
the boot floppy/network method is supported as well. If your VMware product
supports it, you may also install from a PXE server.
Before installing the operating system, be sure that you have already created and
configured a new virtual machine.
Note: Be sure the virtual machine is configured with at least 256MB of memory. If the
virtual machine has less than 256MB of memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux presents an
error message as it loads certain VMware drivers.
Installation Steps
Note: Pay particular attention to the notes in step 6 about how to avoid installing an
inappropriate kernel.
1. Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
2. Power on the virtual machine to start installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
You need to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 using the text mode installer,
which you may choose when you first boot the installer. At the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3.0 CD boot prompt, you are offered a number of choices,
including the following:
To install or upgrade Red Hat Linux ... in graphical mode ...
To install or upgrade ... in text mode, type: text <ENTER>...
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