> Host OS: Win2003R2, i386 and x64, VS2005-R2
> Host OS hardware: new Dell Optiplex GX620, 3.2GHZ, 2GB RAM, DVD-drive.
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> Installing Win2003-R2 as a guest worked A-OK.
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> Tried to install linux guests on MSVS-R2, nothing but an empty set.
> However, SuSE 9.2, 9.3, 10.0 nor Red Hat Fedora 4 guests would install on
> either Windows host platorm as Microsoft said they would.
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> The installers on both distro's hung at about the 2% mark, then sat there
> for eternity. Thinking that the GUI maybe the culprit, I attempted a
> character-mode installation. No dice, the installation locked up at the
> same point.
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> So I thought perhaps it was the built-in DVD/CD drive giving me problems?
> So I plugged in an external USB Memorex DVD-writer. No luck, same issue.
> As a last-ditch effort, I took those install CD's over to a VMWare Server
> 1.0 Beta test box, and had them installed in under an hour each.
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> The same results happened at the same time on either the x64 version or
> the i386 version of VS-R2/Win2003-R2.
>
> I gave up. Microsoft says they support Linux as a guest, namely the SuSE
> 9.x & 10.0 variants. I can't get the bloody guests to even install!
>
> Anyone else having problems installing Linux on VSR2?
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