I have Mandrake 9.1 And Vmware 4.0 installed. I installed mandrake 9.1 with VMware doing this with Windows XP. I can get into linux if i dual boot...but when i try to get into linux with vmware it doesnt work! I want to run linux while im on windows xp..i have enough ram for this 512ram..and 2.5ghz..but it freezes ALWAYS at a certain point apon lilo boot up it freezes when it says checking for new hardware...someone please help i have been trying to get linux to work with windows for over 12 hours..this is as far as i have got