Vmware & Mepis

BittaBrotha · 09-28-2005, 04:24 AM

I'm trying to install Mepis on a Win 2000 Pro vm workstation. Do I need to create a swap virtual partition or do I just leave the whole virtual partition and let mepis handle all that?

The first time I installed mepis from cd, I did create a separate partition for swap and it looks like everything installed. But time to reboot/restart, I get the kernel panic message about 'can't open root device, sda2 or unknown-block(0,0)'

'Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)'

Any ideas/suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Thnx.

BittaBrotha · 10-02-2005, 10:37 PM

Well I've changed distros and installed Ubuntu Warty from a cd disc instead of an ISO. It installed fine except for it didn't install X , so I'm trying to see if installing the linux tools will help fix that problem.

During installation of the linux tools, I come across another problem, during the creation of /mnt/hgfs, it say it cannot create the directory because it's a Read-Only filesystem.

/mnt/hgfs is pointing from /dev/cdrom.

Any ideas how to fix this?

BittaBrotha · 10-04-2005, 12:58 AM

Well I've got it all running and fine now. I just omitted the mount /dev/cdrom /mnt part and everythings fine.

misterxxx · 10-08-2005, 02:10 PM

i'm unable to create the directory /mnt/hgfs even if i already mounted the /dev/cdrom on /mnt

what's the command line that u usedd?

thanks

BittaBrotha · 10-09-2005, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BittaBrotha
Well I've got it all running and fine now. I just omitted the mount /dev/cdrom /mnt part and everythings fine.

I omitted it!