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Bug 38846 - No HD found trying to install from CD gentoo on a WmWare Workstation 4.0 virtual machine
Summary: No HD found trying to install from CD gentoo on a WmWare Workstation 4.0 virt...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38845
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 All
: High blocker
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-01-20 14:16 UTC by dj_aileen
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description dj_aileen 2004-01-20 14:16:14 UTC 
I tried to install a gentoo linux on a WmWare Workstation 4.0 virtual machine, but when I try to perform fdisk /dev/sda (wmware simulate a SCSI 0:0 disk) to create partition i receceive the message "unable to open /dev/sda".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a windows 2000 workstation with wmware workstation 4.0 installed.
2. Run a virtual machine with 128 MB Ram and 4GB disk, put the cd1 in the cd rom for autoboot
3. After boot finished, at the command promp (logged as root) try fdisk /dev/sda

Actual Results:  
the fdisk command returns the message unable to open /dev/sda (I tryed a lot of 
combinations sdb sdc, hda, hdb, ecc. ecc.

Expected Results:  
Runnning fdisk on sda disk
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-01-20 14:48:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38845 ***
Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:24:42 UTC 
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.