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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:00:41 -0400
From:      "Jon Larssen" <jonlarssen@hotmail.com>
To:        steve@stevenfettig.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.6-RELEASE & VMware 3.0
Message-ID:  <F92ZcdjaS36Il06sIQr00020d26@hotmail.com>

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Hey,

>Jon Larssen wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > can anyone succesfully install 4.6-RELEASE in a VMware
> > virtual machine?
> > Care to share some tips?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jon.
> >
>
>Jon,
>
>I lied...

:)

>I don't know how, but too little sleep is really affecting my actions.  I 
>was NOT able to get FreeBSD
>4.6 to install under VMWare 3.1 - The one that worked
>was FreeBSD 4.5 and the one that DIDN'T was 4.6 -
>the second one I claimed to have working.  I started
>going through the install process as I replied to your
>mail and it locked up.  I have been able to reproduce
>the locked-up state 5 times now, so I'm sure it
>doesn't work for *me*.  I am investigating why it isn't
>working, but for now don't know and don't have the time
>to figure it out...

Well, that exactly what was happening to me. In light of the recent ATA 
problems, I decided to go SCSI and now I have a working FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE 
system under VMware 3.0.0. Under that virtual machine the SCSI adapter is a 
BusLogic.

Regards,
Jon.

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