Installing SLES 9 IN VMWARE

[Goalie30]

Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated on this


SO the issue is ongoing and I have been unable to get any type of support for this through the school. I have tried numerous scenarios to get the software to load through the VMware. I do not have a machine handy to make a full time Linux machine at this time.
Here is what happens:
1. I put the Disc SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 In My DVD Drive
2. I have the VMware pointing to my DVD drive which is letter D:
3. I click on New Virtual Machine
4. I follow the screens and find the 3038 Disc in the DVD drive and click on Finish and it goes to the VMware load screen
5. It then goes black and has a corsor in the upper left hand corner of the screen
6. It then shows the following:
Network boot form AMD AM79c70a
Copyright 2003-2005 VMware
Copyright 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADD: 00 0C 29 15 0B E0 GUID: 564DF1A5-26EE-CD12-5FEA-3B67F7150BE0
It has a DHCP And a Spinning PIPE for about one minute and then says this
PXE-MOF EXITING PXE-ROM
Operating system not found
6. I have tired the following: I have entered the setup through F2 and tried pointing it to the CD/DVD drive. I have Hit ESC and tried poitning that to the CD?DVD Drive and it just keeps going back o the Network Boot scenarion and the message above

[gogalthorp]

Are you sure the disk is good?

[Goalie30]

I do not know it came with the textbook. There are two disks. With each textbook one is the fully loadable one and the other is A scaled down version. Neither one is working. It looks like it is trying to boot from a network instead of the disk though with the error i am receiving.

Joe

[gogalthorp]

Ver 9.0 is very very old, Current version is 11.3

You could try booting from a disk and run the checks that should be in the first menu. Nothing will be changed or installed until you go through the whole install routine.

Studying 9.0 is like learning Win98 today. You might get some good from it but it won't help that much with an up to date OS.