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Install issue VMware Workstation 9 on Fedora 18

Vmware Workstation 9.0.1 on Fedora Core 18. Kernel: 3.8.11-200.fc18.x86_64 Failed to find /linux/version.h [root@cypher ~]# cp /usr/include/linux/version.h /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/ After you do this and it fails on vmci... download 9.0.2 Sorry - this ended up simply being a reminder rather than a post on how to fix VMware Workstation.

Using Kickstart (anaconda) on Dell with multiple internal disks

A number of our machines have multiple VDs created (i.e. 2 x 75GB for OS, 2 x 146GB for application). After building an R910 with multiple VDs I discovered that /boot and <SWAP> were on the 75GB device, and the OS was on the 146GB device.  I wanted everything on the 75GB. <excerpt from kickstart profile> # STORAGE CONFIGURATION zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb --append="nousbstorage" part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=512 --asprimary --onbiosdisk=81 part pv.1 --size=1 --grow --onbiosdisk=81 volgroup VolGroup00 pv.1 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --recommended logvol / --fstype ext4 --fsoptions=noatime --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow #logvol / --fstype ext4 --fsoptions=noatime --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240 </excerpt> I had found numerous recommendations to deal with this situation. nousbstorage - doesn't really