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3. Follow the installation steps as you would for a physical machine. Be sure to
make the choices outlined in the following steps.
4. Choose the language and keyboard, then in the Installation Type screen, choose
either Server or Workstation for the installation type.
5. In the Mouse Selection screen, choose Generic – 3 Button Mouse (PS/2) and
select the Emulate 3 Buttons option for three-button mouse support in the
virtual machine. If you have a wheel mouse, you may choose Generic Wheel
Mouse (PS/2).
6. 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.
7. Allow automatic partitioning of the disk to occur in the Automatic Partitioning
screen or partition the virtual disk manually if you do not want to use the Red
Hat defaults.
8. 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.
9. In the Video Card Configuration screen, choose Skip X Configuration.
This completes basic installation of the Red Hat Linux 8.0 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 the X server in the guest operating system until you install VMware Tools.
Enabling Sound After Installing Red Hat Linux 8.0
VMware GSX Server: The sound device is disabled by default and must be enabled
with the virtual machine control panel (VM > Settings) after the operating system has
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