I'm in the process of attempting to install FC3 through Virtual PC 5 on my G4 dual Gig MDD. FC2 is happily running on an old PC but I thought I would see what FC3 was like.

Still a half hour away from finishing a standard desktop install.

So far, I was able to get VPC5 to recognize a disk image for the install. It would not boot from the DVD. Some places in the documentation it says that it will read a DVD, others not. (VPC 6-7 from Micro$loth is _not_ a considered option.)

If anything interesting happens, I'll pass it along.
Bucky

Not successful yet.

The install program had difficulty estimating the amount of time to complete installation. From 28 minutes remaining, to 30, to 45, to 40,. . . I went to bed after two hours.

Installation was apparently successful but on trying to boot, I only got this far:
Immediately, VPC informed me that it had encountered an "unrecoverable processor error" and would reboot the virtual machine. I don't even know where to begin to look.

I've set the memory to 512MB, which ought to be enough for minimal messing around. The installer detected the correct virtual display. The mouse apparently functions. Booting from the rescueCD, I didn't find any error logs in Linux.

Any ideas how to get this working in Virtual PC? Something simple? Something incompatible? Am I just wasting my time?

Bucky