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I have finally successfully installed a running VMWare server on my Ubuntu machine. The following steps should have then allowed me to install Redflag Linux as a virtual machine:

• Download the most recent version 6.0 of Redflag Linux from ftp://220.194.60.89/pub/redflag/dt6/rf6/RedFlag-dt6-sys.iso (which of course took ages)
• Burn the iso-image to a cd
• Configure a new virtual machine with 500 mb memory and 20 giga hd-space on my external harddisk (I don’t want it to run on my main harddisk)
• Launch the new virtual machine and install Redflag from CD

What really happend:

• The virtual machine started successfully and the cd launched the installation process

• The installation was halted, because anaconda could not execute

A similar problem seems to occur when installing Redhat, so I might be able to find some help on the internet. Redhat’s Bugzilla has a bug entry for this issue, but the suggested booting with ‘linux allowcddma’ doesn’t work in my case. Thus, the question arises: where can I find a forum to discuss problems with Redflag?

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm and is filed under asia, china, academic, computing, open source, redflag.