Installing Slack 12.2 on VMware 5.9

655321 · 07-02-2009, 08:03 AM

This is my first post and I'd like to thank you for any help I receive in advance.

After setting up an 8 gig Virtual Machine, I fire it up running the Slack 12.2 iso. I run the kernel, log in as root and run fdisk. Fdisk only sees 4 gigs of my 8 gig VM. No matter what size, 6g to 20g, only sees 4. Any ideas why this is happening?

Any help is appreciated.

mutexe · 07-02-2009, 08:55 AM

How much disk space do you have on the partition that the VM resides in?

655321 · 07-02-2009, 09:02 AM

About 17g after creating the VM cuz i preallocated the space...

mutexe · 07-02-2009, 09:03 AM

Ah okay, it won't be that then sorry.

abolishtheun · 07-02-2009, 10:43 AM

Are you sure you're pointing fdisk to the right device? VMWare disks show up as scsi devices (/dev/sda) instead of hda. hda is probably your physical optical drive or something.

655321 · 07-02-2009, 10:48 AM

Ya. I'm typing fdisk /dev/sda