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Some notes on how VMware Workstation/Player “Easy Installs” SUSE Linux

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/30

When VMware Workstation/Player does an Easy Install of SUSE Linux (and most other Linuxes), it does this:

  • mount a CD drive with the autoinst.iso image
  • mount a floppy drive with the autoinst.flp image

For Linux, both of them contain autoinst.xml files to automate the boot process.

It has a few drawbacks including a hardcoded boot partition size and unmount problems, so if you don’t want those, follow the guidelines at How to Stop Easy Install in VMware Workstation.

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2013/08/30 at 06:00 and is filed under *nix, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Workstation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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