Linux on Virtual PC

übermac®™

übermac®™

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Has anybody successfully booted Red Hat Linux on Virtual PC?

Every time I try to install it, after creating the disk image and putting in the CD, the installer won't allow me to partition the drive and says something like "cannot recognize partition hda, press ok to initialize (this will destroy any data on drive hda)."

Of course, I think this means that it will try to erase my (only) hard drive along with OS X, and I press cancel--which then forces the installer to quit.

How do I get past this?
 
Originally posted by übermac®™
Has anybody successfully booted Red Hat Linux on Virtual PC?

Every time I try to install it, after creating the disk image and putting in the CD, the installer won't allow me to partition the drive and says something like "cannot recognize partition hda, press ok to initialize (this will destroy any data on drive hda)."

Of course, I think this means that it will try to erase my (only) hard drive along with OS X, and I press cancel--which then forces the installer to quit.

How do I get past this?
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Ironic that you posted this. I just installed Mandrake 8.0 through VPC, and it wouldn't accept the second cdrom (i burned their iso a while ago, when I still had my peecee). It's not redhat, but perhaps I can help...

I created a 5gig drive size, and let it format/partition the available drive size, from the two choices it gave me. It installed easily enough (11 mins). Since it's installing through vpc, it sees that file, as your entire drive....so partition, format away (everything is contained in that file)!

Though...it's slow...when I did boot up, there was a visible...almost intolerable delay between clicking an icon, and the prog starting.

Guess that's what you get, when you use an emulator. I wanted to install xp or atleast win2k through that...but ugh....that's gonna be a journey, i'll leave for another day. :->
 
I'm trying to install RedHat 9 on virtual PC 6 and I have the same "problem"; during installation I get the following message:

"The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive..."

Did I understand it right that "this drive" in the warning means the partition on virtual pc and not the whole hdr?
Obviously virtual PC 6 doesn't ask for the size of the partition when creating a new mashine. This is why I'm posing the old question again...
I just want to make sure I won't loose any data on the OSX system.

Sepideh
 
VirtualPC will not initialize your physical hard drive. It can't. No utility running from a particular drive can initialize/format that drive. How would it? It can't delete itself, which would be required to format a drive. It's talking about your virtual drive. Your hard drive is safe.

Same goes for virii in Virtual PC. They'll stay within VPC and will not affect your system outside of the virtual hard drive.

On a side note, I'm trying my damnedest to get Fedora Core 3 running under Virtual PC 7.0.1. Everything installs just fine, however, trying to boot from the drive after the successful install yields a warning message from VPC 7 saying "An unrecoverable processor error has occurred" or something to that effect, and then forces a reboot of the virtual system. Ugh.
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
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On a side note, I'm trying my damnedest to get Fedora Core 3 running under Virtual PC 7.0.1. Everything installs just fine, however, trying to boot from the drive after the successful install yields a warning message from VPC 7 saying "An unrecoverable processor error has occurred" or something to that effect, and then forces a reboot of the virtual system. Ugh.
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Any progress?
 
Nope. I'm having this sinking feeling that it's just not gonna work...

...so, I downloaded the new YellowDog Linux 4.0 (which is Fedora Core 2 based; good enough!) and installed it on my 7600 G3/400 machine. Works great.
 
Just to let you know, there is a new version (10.1) of Mandrake for PowerPC ready for download via the official site:

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#ppc

:)) I just hate virtual PC and all that M$ windscreens inside an Apple computer. :))

OmegaMan said:
Ironic that you posted this. I just installed Mandrake 8.0 through VPC, and it wouldn't accept the second cdrom (i burned their iso a while ago, when I still had my peecee). It's not redhat, but perhaps I can help...
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if you want redhat on mac just install yellow dog linux that natively runs on ppc. its essentially redhat for ppc.

emulation blows big time.
 
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