RHEL installation in Vmware not working

[tonywolfe121]

hi im running on windows and wanting to check out linux so i got vmware and use it for redhat enterprise linux 4 but i get this error can some one help an no i cant switch to linux because i need windows for my schoolwork and other stuff
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/...bc0b752b_o.jpg

[techieMoe]

Looks like you're trying to install the 64-bit version of Redhat EL 4. I don't know if VMWare supports that. Is your host computer 64-bit?

[tonywolfe121]

think so and that verson was on the list of linux the newest verson they had

[techieMoe]

I'd download a 32-bit disk image and try running that from VMware, just to be sure.

[tonywolfe121]

ok they had the 32 bit in the list to so im trying that. i wll tell you how it works
dident work

[techieMoe]

ok they had the 32 bit in the list to so im trying that. i wll tell you how it works
dident work

Can you be more specific? An error or screenshot perhaps?

[tonywolfe121]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/...f75857b8_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/...538a0ed3_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2139/...5a3df7be_o.jpg
sorry frogot here

[coopstah13]

You have to actually install the operating system to use it. Did you download the installation media for RHEL4 and go through the install process?
Also, just because the OS isn't in the list doesn't mean it won't work, I've used vmware with debian and also built linux from scratch using vmware.

[tonywolfe121]

but dont i halft to pardon my hard drive

[coopstah13]

thats not how vmware works

vmware tricks the computer basically and you make disk images of your guest os in the host OS and then the guest os runs as if its on a normal machine. you have to install the linux inside of vmware, either download the iso and burn it and put it in your disk drive and have vmware use the disk drive in the guest OS, or you can use the iso as the disk drive