Bug 74786 - Graphical installation fails on VMware guest install
Summary: Graphical installation fails on VMware guest install
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-01 17:13 UTC by Russell Steffen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-10-01 17:13:55 UTC
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Description Russell Steffen 2002-10-01 17:13:49 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Attempting to start a graphical install of Red Hat 8 as a guest
OS under VMware fails. The X server stops with the message:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot VMware into Red Hat 8 installer
2. Select graphical installation at the boot menu
3.
	

Actual Results:  X Server dies with error message after briefly blanking and
resizing
the VMware window. The error message left in /tmp/X.log is :

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

Expected Results:  Should have started the X server and continued on through the
installation.

Additional info:

The text install seems to work better under VMware, however the text installer
is missing important functionality (like LVM comfiguration).
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-01 18:41:43 UTC 
We do not support installation of Red Hat Linux under vmware.
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