Weblog of Michael Cutler

“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of peers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

1. Planet Malaysia 21st March 2006 / 1:03pm

   why my fc5 download so slow? TOO BAD!
2. Michael Cutler 21st March 2006 / 1:03pm

   Try downloading it using BitTorrent, the torrents for it are at http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/. There are more than 200 seeders for each of the DVD ISO’s … I am one of them at the moment.

   ;)
3. Critter 21st March 2006 / 3:03pm

   Funny you just posted this. I have been attempting all morning to get it installed on my copy of VMWare. It was a no go everytime, until I “built” the machine using using custom settings. I must have chosen the buslogic (lucky guess), and it is installing fine as I type. Good to know why.
   Thanks
4. Chris 29th March 2006 / 4:03pm

   I’ve also been working all morning trying to figure out why my VM hardware was not working for Fedora. Thanks a lot. Good Luck.
5. Andrea 30th March 2006 / 8:03pm

   Thank you very much for your solution, i had the same problem but now work it !!
   chers !
6. Ally 1st April 2006 / 1:04pm

   Cheers, much appreciated that you put this solution up. Likely saved me hours of work, found your article straight away.
7. John 3rd April 2006 / 9:04pm

   Thank You very much. Help me out alot.
8. Tony Antonucci 3rd April 2006 / 11:04pm

   Your the man. I was just about to resort to Core 4, when I found your solution. I am in the middle of Core 5 install as we speak.
9. Dag 9th April 2006 / 5:04am

   Have you been able to install vmware tools on fc5?
10. Andrew 10th April 2006 / 7:04am

    I had a problem installing Fedora 5 on VMWare, found this site, problem gone - thankyou
11. Alejandro 11th April 2006 / 8:04am

    Hi, I was also trying to install Fedora C5 in VMWare5, but no success, until I found this - Thanks for the information.
12. FIlip 14th April 2006 / 6:04pm

    Thanx a lot. It hepled!
13. Paul C 15th April 2006 / 7:04pm

    ditto. thanks ^_^
14. tomling 17th April 2006 / 6:04pm

    Thanks, helped a lot.
15. Grant 21st April 2006 / 1:04am

    Thanks for the info!!
16. BMAN 21st April 2006 / 3:04pm

    Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for.
17. denis 22nd April 2006 / 7:04am

    FC5 Install OK, But cannot boot
    VMware 4.5, upgrading FC3 to FC5
    With is procedure the Fc5 installation goees fine. But then FC5 does boot:
    No volume groups found
    Unable to find volume group “VolGroup00″
    unable to access sesume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
    mont: could not find filesystem ‘/dev/root’
    ….
    Kernel panic - not syncing: ….

    what I did:
    1) use linux rescue, again select buslogic, it mounts properly my system on /mnt/sysimage
    chroot /mnt/sysimage
    add in /etc/modprobe.conf
    alias scsi-hostadapter1 mptspi
    alias scsi-hostadapter mptsi

    rebuild kernel

    modify grub.conf
    #boot=/dev/sda
    …
    splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    hiddenmenu
    title fedora Core (2.6.15-prep)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-prep ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb hdc=ide-scsi quiet
    initrd /initrd-2.6.15-prep.img

    2) I also added in the vmware configuration file
    scsi.0.virtualDev = “buslogic”

    no success yet …
    thank’s for your help
18. denis 23rd April 2006 / 5:04am

    Finally …
    I recompiled the kernel again, but moving the buslogic and a few other modules to the kernel core … and it boot now

    Is it that I upgraded 3-> 5, but many applications are now correctely installed:
    up2date, package updater package installer even nedit does not find a library …. well i’ll solve these issues, but
    FC5 is not up to the level of previous releases
19. denis 23rd April 2006 / 6:04am

    in my previous comment you should read “NOT correctly installed” .. Sorry
20. apex 23rd April 2006 / 1:04pm

    I was having this problem as well. I selected the buslogic scsidriver and it’s working great now. thanks.
21. IPV6 24th April 2006 / 3:04am

    Your suggestion to get around the harddrive issue worked flawlessly. Very helpful! Thank you!
22. Liam 28th April 2006 / 12:04pm

    Why do you imagine this isn’t in the release notes for VMWare server?
23. Brian’s Weblog » Fedora Core 5 Install 3rd May 2006 / 3:05am

    […] So I’m going through this Fedora Core 5 installation on my VMWare Workstation…but I’ve had problems with getting the hard disks recognized. Found this blog that explains what needs to be done to get the disks recognized. Basically, I had to choose the BusLogic MultiMaster SCSI adapter so it would find my hard drive in the VMWare environment. Started getting Fedora installed so I can see how well it runs. I have not used FC since the days of FC1 so I’m curious to see how much it’s changed/improved, etc. […]
24. Simone 4th May 2006 / 12:05am

    Thank you very much for this hint!
25. Scott 5th May 2006 / 1:05pm

    Great suggestions - it worked flawlessly for me as well. Thanks, Scott
26. Ed 5th May 2006 / 1:05pm

    Just attempted the install as well. I googled Fedora Core 5 on Vmware and it brought me to your site. Thanks for the help.

    Ed.
27. SP:-) 7th May 2006 / 7:05pm

    Thanks for the workaround!
28. Rob Owen 9th May 2006 / 5:05pm

    Thanks a lot.

    I was having same problem.

    Works perfectly with this workaround.
29. ubergoober 11th May 2006 / 5:05am

    Fixed it, awesome. Funny how this was a top match on google, but VMWare didn’t rank (or even have a solution for all I know).

    Good job and thanks.
30. DaveP 13th May 2006 / 6:05pm

    YES! Buslogic is the answer! Thanks for the tip. You ROCK!
31. benhadad 17th May 2006 / 12:05am

    Has anyone loaded the VMTOOLs under FC5? I have been hitting my head against the wall trying to get the source downloaded and reconized by vmware-config-tools.pl I loaded the compiler and downloaded the source but don’t know which directory to give it.
32. Souch From Paris - France 18th May 2006 / 12:05pm

    Well done, thanks for this Help for vmware users
33. Curt L 21st May 2006 / 2:05am

    Thank you very much for this info. Fixed me right up. I really do appreciate it.
34. anthony 22nd May 2006 / 11:05am

    Thanks Michael, problem sorted!
35. jason 24th May 2006 / 12:05pm

    hahha exactly same problem i figured it out and saw this post so i was liek hey lets try but i was treying to install win server 2003 so now i tryed fedora again on the guest win srvr 2003 and it worked without had to choose for an driver
36. Davide Grossato 31st May 2006 / 2:05pm

    I’ve writed an equivalent how-to in Italian and I’ve linked you at

    http://dgrossato.blogspot.com/2006/05/fedora-core-5-host-e-guest_114829355595883518.html

    Thnx
    DvD
37. dante 3rd June 2006 / 6:06am

    Thanks a lot!
    Should have looked it up earlier instead of messing around…
    I thought it’s my bloody Dell…;-)
38. Nelson Alvarez 5th June 2006 / 12:06am

    Hola!

    Esto es justamente lo que me pasaba con mi Dell Inspiron 6400 y por más que buscaba en google no encontraba la respuesta.

    Muchas gracias por la solución, me está funcionando a la perfección.

    Saludos desde Chile.
39. 张理 11th June 2006 / 3:06am

    Thank you very much !
    非常感谢！！
40. Dreamer 19th June 2006 / 1:06am

    Thank’s a lot man!
41. Paul Lukas 27th June 2006 / 4:06pm

    The links below contain the Fedora Core 5 2.6.17 VMWare image.

    [editorial snip, the VMWare Player images can be downloaded directly from thoughtpolice.co.uk]

    This VMWare image was originally downloaded from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk and was patched with the latest updates.
    VMWare tools are installed.
42. steve 4th July 2006 / 4:07pm

    thanks for posting this- red hat work great now
43. Amir 5th July 2006 / 1:07pm

    I also want to join the cangratulaters - you also saved me ALOT of time. thanks you!!!!!
44. SL 14th July 2006 / 6:07pm

    Thank you I will try it today but it looks like it will work right away.
45. turlach 18th July 2006 / 8:07pm

    Re-install from the beginning and choose IDE instead of SCSI in the initial configuration and it should work fine.
46. Ivan 22nd July 2006 / 7:07am

    Thanks for your help! You saved me hours of tests!
47. np 30th July 2006 / 11:07am

    Finally! Thanks…
48. TnT 2nd August 2006 / 5:08am

    so good ,I just do it . Thanks
49. Jan 5th August 2006 / 9:08am

    “5. List of Detected Devices now including the BusLogic Driver”

    It did not work with me. Is that because I have a SATA drive installed?

    Please help me. I cannot get Fedora 5 installed as a virtual Linux computer.
50. jay 10th August 2006 / 1:08pm

    u save me some time troubleshooting. im glad i googled it before install to see if there are known issues. owe you a beer in 2nd life.

    jay
51. Jim 14th August 2006 / 4:08am

    Thanks a lot, worked like a charm and saved me a lot of time. Still behaves that way in 5.5.2 VMWare.
52. kieran moore 23rd August 2006 / 11:08am

    I tested syllable on vmware which worked, where did you get .vmx file of fedora 5
53. Tory 25th August 2006 / 5:08pm

    Thanks for this fix! It worked perfectly!
54. mcope 28th August 2006 / 8:08pm

    this was great advice, just what i needed. gracias
55. Fabrice 29th August 2006 / 3:08am

    Work well for a new install,

    Thanks a lot.

    I just wonder what where the install options for a upgrade FC4 to FC5.
    Anyone knows ?
56. Syed 31st August 2006 / 5:08pm

    HI, can ny1 help me here ,my fedora core-5 is installed in the computer but i’m unable to access it.when i start my computer and start fedora core -5 operating system it goes u p to 30% and then stuck every time.

    is this problem related to my Windiws XP because similar problem is coming with MATLAB too(i.e MATLAB too is installed like fedora core-5 but i’m unable to access it.)
57. archi 1st September 2006 / 5:09am

    Thanks a lot !
58. Gordon 1st September 2006 / 10:09am

    Thanks - just what I needed to know!
59. Henning 4th September 2006 / 10:09am

    Great work - and the buslogic workaround even works on Fedora 6 Test2 !
60. CAM 4th September 2006 / 1:09pm

    Thanks for this, saved me a shed load of ball ache! Much appreciated!!
61. ludo 7th September 2006 / 2:09am

    Thanks for this - I only just got VMware today, and boy was I confused when Fedora didn’t find the virtual drive!
62. kansapa 16th September 2006 / 9:09am

    Thank you very much~!!
63. Sanjay Kumar 28th September 2006 / 8:09am

    Thank you very much~!!
64. Bruno de Oliveira 30th September 2006 / 5:09pm

    Thanks Michael for the tip, now I can install with Bus Logic and LSI Logic

    Great tip
    thanks again!
65. Patricio 6th October 2006 / 12:10pm

    Thank you very very much Michael. Whith your suggestion all works fine. Thanks again!!! Regards.
66. Kevin 11th October 2006 / 1:10pm

    Duuuuuuude. Thanks man that did the trick.
67. RV 17th October 2006 / 9:10pm

    Just wanted to say thanks - adding that adapter made it work
68. R 22nd October 2006 / 4:10pm

    Many thanks for this very useful piece of info.
    R

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