No Drives Available - CentOS 5 + VMWare W/S 6.5

[cherrick]

Trying to install CentOS 5 into a VMWare Workstation 6.5 virtual machine. I can get the CentOS install to run up to the point where it wants a hard drive. The virtual machine has a SCSI virtual hard drive. It is not showing up in the CentOS install. So the installation fails. I have created and deleted and recreated the SCSI virtual hard drive twice with no luck.

What gives? Can you help me please?

cherrick@spamcop.net

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[continuum]

very likely Centos does not have the driver for the SCSI-controller you specified.

VMware offers buslogic and lsilogic controllers.

The choice is preset by selecting the guestOS type.

So either you pick a slightly different guestOS or specify the device in the vmx-file.

If you have a line like

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

change it to

scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

If you have a line

scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

change it to

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

If you have none of those lines insert this line

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

All of this edits just toggle the scsi-controller type with the hope that Centos has the drivers for the OTHER one

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description of vmx-parameters:

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[cherrick]

there are no scsi0.virtualDev lines in my .VMX file.

Should I just start throwing them in there?

[continuum]

as already said

If you have none of those lines insert this line

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:

[cherrick]

added the line

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

that did the trick.

[cherrick]

Sorry ... need more help.

With my CentOS ISO 1 of 6 in the CD drive the install has started and worked up until the CentOS installer asks for disc 2.

I pull out the ISO 1 of 6 and insert the ISO 2 of 6 and now the installer is saying

"Error. Unable to access the CDROM".

Is this a CentOS going through VMWare to the host o/s (WIndozz XP Pro SP 2) and for some reason not able to get to the drive?

If so why would the install be able to run on the same Drive?

Can someone help?

[continuum]

changing isos is a little bit queer

try this:

if installer asks to change CDs - use WS GUI to disconnect the ISO - do not change yet

say OK to installer now - he will complain and ask you to try again - now use WS GUI and change isos and re-connect it

now again say OK to the installer

this should work better

by the way - next time download the DVD-iso

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description of vmx-parameters:

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[cherrick]

Yes, I was about to say just that ... I discovered it pretty much trying all the permutations. Here is what I wrote on the CentOS fourm:

"ok. working. Here's the deal ... with VMWare W/S you can toggle VM >

Removable Devices > Settings. You can choose either Physical Drive

("H" in my case) or ISO image.

For CentOS installer to work VMWare has to be set to ISO image.

But

once you set the settings to ISO image and point to the current ISO CD

disk it "locks onto" that disc. So when CentOS installer wants the next

disc, you have to reset VMWare W/S Removable Devices.

Initially

it won't "let go" of the image. So you have to tweak and tweak until

you get VMWare to reset itself to the next, correct ISO image.

And then the CentOS installer moves along and continues the installation."

thanks! And good point about the DVD.

[cherrick]

so ... done! whew.

what's on ISO disc 5 and ISO disc 6?