I think thats your problem: look for them under /dev/sda1,2 etc. Make sure the scsi setup is correct if the drives dont exist. vmware runs as a pure scsi system except for the cdrom for me.
BillK On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 07:26, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install the gentoo 1.4 relaise under vmware4, but > I'm missing something for sure. > > After the boot process has finished and I get my prompt, I start > partitioning > with fdsik and get the messages "you will not be able to write the > partition table", > > and even vmware does use scsi naming even you have ide drives I'v > found my hard drive under /dev/hdc using the fdisk command. > > Please help me install genntoo in this virtual machine, > > Thank you, Peter -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list