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Why I can't install Red Hat 5.1 on virtualbox or vmware?
Hello,
I tried today to install Redhat 5.1 on virtualbox, the installing goes so far when i reboot the box, Error Fatal, no medium found .... like if i didn't install nothing, i received the CD of Red Hat 5.1 with a book called Mastering Linux, but as i see, i have hard times to install on virtualbox is there any trick?
I tried today to install Redhat 5.1 on virtualbox, the installing goes so far when i reboot the box, Error Fatal, no medium found .... like if i didn't install nothing, i received the CD of Red Hat 5.1 with a book called Mastering Linux, but as i see, i have hard times to install on virtualbox is there any trick?
Use centOS as it is a Binary Compatible Version of Red Hat and is more apt to being in a virtual environment. I have CentOS in Virtualbox right now.
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Yes i know about CentOS, Actually I use it as i prefer it than any other distribution.
The reason i want to install this is because i have a book of 800 pages and i want to follow with it since they provide a CD of RedHat 5.1
I see that VirtualBox has Sata Controller, and there is only 1 type : AHCI
Any solution?
The reason i want to install this is because i have a book of 800 pages and i want to follow with it since they provide a CD of RedHat 5.1
I see that VirtualBox has Sata Controller, and there is only 1 type : AHCI
Any solution?
I haven't tried it yet. I just installed VirtualBox to see it, but I see you can add a hard disk under the IDE controllers. Does that work?
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Indeed, the system detected the SCSI Controller When scanning for SCSI Bus ... The problem was found when probing after i selected the graphic card, when i press Probe because it's the only option, the screen become Black and that's it.. when i reboot, no system found.
I must say that i added the following partitions without a successful attempt:
/
/boot
/var
/src
/src/local
/src/usr
Swap
I must say that i added the following partitions without a successful attempt:
/
/boot
/var
/src
/src/local
/src/usr
Swap
I can install RHES5 on vmware.
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so what i'm doing is impossible, since VirtualBox support RedHat 7 and UP, mine is 5.1 then no way :) i'm gonna try to download RH7
Not compatible was the answer. Also can install on VMware.
No, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 *is* compatible. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is *later* than RedHat 7. (The numbering of the Enterprise strain is different than just RedHat (which then became Fedora).
u need to boot through cdrom. force to enter the bios and set the boot medium to cdrom. then before u exit the bios, mount the RHEL cdrom and exit bios so that the boot medium is identified. i hope the vm creation was done in custom mode.
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@mccracky: i'm not using Red Hat Entreprise, this is just Red hat 5.1 1998, an old ancient distribution
@prak_seafarer:i'm using Vmware/Virtualbox, Not on my real box :)
@prak_seafarer:i'm using Vmware/Virtualbox, Not on my real box :)
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Ok, If it's that ancient, you're right, it won't work. I'd go for CentOS 5 and use the book. Most of it will be similar enough to help you with your learning from the book and up-to-date enough that you can also find a lot of help here or elsewhere on the web.
you can try with the other OS option i think you can select linux in other OS. though you might not be able to install vmware tools on it other OS option might solve ur issue
When creating a VM you could try to change the Storage controller type.
Click on a VM -> Settings -> Storage -> Type.
You could also try a more recent version of RHEL.