Fedora Core 4 Test 2 under VMware Workstation 5.0

Submitted by keithmo

on April 16, 2005 - 6:20am

Linux

I toyed around a bit with Fedora Core 4 Test 1. I didn't get too much time with it, because soon after I finally got the ISOs downloaded, FC4T2 was released.

There was one glaring problem with FC4T1. After installing in a freshly-created VM, the first boot to the GUI desktop hung. After a few minutes I lost patience and switched to a console. There, "top" showed that "gdm" and "syslogd" were competing to see who could consume the most CPU time. A quick "yum update gdm" retrieved an update, and one reboot later the system was happy.

Last night, I created a fresh new VM and installed FC4T2. My (new) host system is:

Toshiba Satellite A75-S231 (3.3GHz HT P4)
1.5G RAM (approximately -- video RAM is shared with the system)
1200x800 display
80G 4800RPM drive

I kept an activity log during the installation, with rough "wall clock" times:

01:00am         Booted FC4T2 Install Disk

01:04am         Finished prompts, started installing disc 1

01:08am         Got "20 minutes remaining" message

01:15am         Started disc 2, "15 minutes remaining"

01:27am         Started disk 4, "2 minutes remaining" (note - no disc 3)

01:28am         "Performing post install configuration..."

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01:29am         Done - reboot
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01:30am         Graphical boot starts
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01:31am         Firstboot
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01:32am         GDM - login
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01:32am         Desktop
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After logging in, I opened a terminal window and spent a few minutes pointing yum to my local repository. I then installed the VMwareTools RPM, executed "vmware-config-tools.pl" to setup X, then rebooted. Finally, I executed "yum update" to get the (more than 300!) updates, then rebooted a final time.

I haven't had much time to play with it, but FC4T2 feels quite stable. Also, it feels like it boots much faster than FC3.

vmware-tools fc4

Frederik (not verified)

June 16, 2005 - 11:27am

Hello,

I tried vmware-tools that comes with VMWare WKS 4.5.2 on the final FC4. All seems to work until I reboot, then I get an error about the mouse. You have any tips to get this solved?

Thx,
Frederik.

Try this patch

keithmo

June 19, 2005 - 9:57am

I haven't tried FC4 under VMware 4.5.2, but this patch from this blog entry might work. If you try this, please post the results here so others will know if it works or not.

Good luck!

installed on an Acer travelma

pueblo (not verified)

July 16, 2005 - 3:04am

installed on an Acer travelmate 4000LCi

Ok so I installed fc4 on vmware4.5.2 I used the patch there is still that problem with the 1 cunck not being patch I think its 3052 or something like that but I edited it manualy like suggested and bam yes it works. You also still have to edit the XF86Config file in /ect so you dont run into the mouse problem.