Ok, as suggested I thought I would try and install D3/Linux 7.4.2 in
VMWARE first before doing it on the real hardware.

Unfortunately I have hit my first problem. I get the following failure
when running D3_setup under RHEL4.1. I have installed the patches for
7.4.2 on RHEL4

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
/tmp/D3_setup: line 401: 7717 Segmentation fault ./instal_pick $LIBDIR $FSIINST

This occurs right at the start after the "Do you want to continue the
installation?"

Anyone have any ideas ?

Matt

Matt Hyne wrote:
RD Support is open until 4pm pacific time on Saturday.

Of course, RD response is likely to be "we don't support that platform"
- which I believe is a reasonable response ..... you may end up with
same problem, BUT, it sounds horribly like VMWARE I/O is getting in the
way (never having used the product though, please totally disregard
this comment)

D3 7.4.2 with all the patches installs in RHEL 4.0 under VMWare WS 5.x just
fine.

Nick

"Matt Hyne" <matt (AT) hyne (DOT) com> wrote

"Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote:
I understand what you're saying Ross but I think most support
companies are savvy enough to know they shouldn't use vmWare as an
excuse to close a call. As Nick said, it vmWare works fine and
obviously has a full set of drivers to support RHEL. Some application
like D3 shouldn't be _that_ sensitive if all of the underpinnings are
properly in place.

I used to use vmWare for demos when I was at RD, courtesy of vmWare
themselves because one of their VP's was an old Pick guy. Wasn't
everyone at some point even if they don't admit it? These days I
use Virtual PC because it comes with MSDN. RD has never given me
grief about it.

T

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Tony Gravagno wrote:

Update, RD support could not solve the problem so I gave up, dumped VMWARE
and found on old PIII to use as the test machine.

M