Guest pedro Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Hi, I hoped to be able to discover linux (never used it) using VMWare in my Win2K environment, but I can't get Mandrake 9.0 to get installed. After only a few seconds, there seems to be a General Protection Fault immediately after Enabling Unmasked SIMD FPU Support. Then there's a 'kernel panic' message: 'attempted to kill the idle task', followed by 'In idle task - not syncing ' My keyboard&mouse software (cordless Logitech) shows me a constant switching the Num Lock and Caps Lock status. The only thing I can do is turn of the virtual machine. I searched through the users board, but only found messages from people who are using VMWare on Linux to launch a Windows environment, not the other way around, like me. Any suggestions? Pedro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HaloScan Posted November 15, 2002 Report Share Posted November 15, 2002 Probably not going to be the answer you're looking for but running Mandrake in VMware inside windows would not be the way to "experience linux". It'll run slower and not be as stable. Also, many things that would have worked hardware wise in a real install probably wouldn't work in a VMware install. If you want to experience linux, I'd highly recommend installing it 'for real' instead of in VMware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 15, 2002 Report Share Posted November 15, 2002 Try updating to vmware 3.2. I have it running on windows 2000 and have successfully installed Mandrake 9.0. Although there were a few problems - icon visibility is a little eratic and I can't see any text in programs like OpenOffice.org Writer. It is definitely slower though, and there is no sound. I did it because I wanted to see what Mandrake 9.0 was like, but did not have the hard drive space. Plus, I already run a dual boot system with win2k and Red Hat 7.3 and did not want to risk my current setup trying to install a triple boot. So, it can be done, you may just have to upgrade to the latest version of vmware - which should be free - and then try the install. Any question, just shout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pedro Posted November 15, 2002 Report Share Posted November 15, 2002 unfortunately: using VMWare 3.2 gives exactly the same result: a GPF at the same moment. Any other clues? Kind regards, Pedro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pedro Posted November 23, 2002 Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 The problem had to do with my bios. I've just flashed it and now everything works fine. Rgds, Pedro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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