FedoraCore6Notes on Fedora Core 6, under VMWare Fusion Create a local repository from the DVD
mkdir /etc/yum.dvdrepo
createrepo -o /etc/yum.dvdrepo/repodata/ -c /etc/yum.dvdrepo/repocache -g ../base/comps.xml /media/FC_6\ i386\ DVD/Fedora/RPMS/
find /media/FC_6\ i386\ DVD/Fedora/RPMS/* -exec ln -sf {} . \;
cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-dvd.repo [dvd] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch baseurl=file:///etc/yum.dvdrepo/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY Remember to disable the other repositories! in any case, even if you have network, remember to run yum update before running pirut - otherwise it will almost lock. The VMWare Tools cannot shrink an LVM partition, so it might be better to install with standard partitions (using custom partitioning) You will need at least gcc, glibc-devel, glibc-headers, libgomp, kernel-devel to let VMWareTools recompile the kernel modules. The seamless mouse movement works as soon as the VMWareTools have loaded the kernel modules - this is a huge advantage over Parallels. |