[Apachebenchmark-sans-t4] VMware Blues Solution

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WindowsXP and VMware  

If you are running Windows as a host for VMware and planning on installing Red Hat as a guest, you should have a look at the following site - it will save you a lot of needless pain.

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/22062/fid/1144

Most of the X desktop files would not load when using a CD recorded properly from a downloaded ISO.  I know I went through burning multiple CDs and downloaded images from more than one mirror.  Seems the trick is to tell VMware to read the second disk as an ISO image.  So when you burn your CD's record the first CD and make sure that you simply copy the ISO file on the second.  The faq tells what to do from there.  

The above got me past the problems I was initially having with xpdf, xsane, xsri, etc not wanting to open or appearing to be corrupt.  

This may help resolve some of the questions/concerns raised in the first session as to whether VMware worked with WindowsXP/Windows2000.  Version 4.0 has bugs, but workarounds.

On to the next mind-numbing non-class learning experience.  

Mike