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installing linux using vmware
Name: arv1980 Date: April 19, 2005 at 03:05:30 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Celeron 566/128
Comment:
Hi there,
I have 2 hard disks of 4 GB( as primary master and primary slave), on primary master i have installed WinXP and VMware 4.5.2, and on slave i have installed win98 and i have installed Redhat linux advanced server 2.1. I am trying to install linux using VMWare, but it is giving me 2 problems
> it is allowing me to give ram only upto 40 MB > it is installing on C: ie on primary master only. I want to install it on D drive. Please help me.
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