Install fedora16 and VMware Tools in VMware

Install fedora16 and VMware Tools in VMware. 1. Open VMware and click Create a New Virtual Machine. 2. Go to the next step, the default value is 3. In this step, we select the third option ("Create a blank hard disk"). Then, in step 4, the installed Fedora16 is in the Linux system, of course, you have to select "Linux. Select "Fedora" 5 in Version 5, enter the Virtual machine name and installation path 6, and allocate space to the Virtual system, depends on the size of the disk space. 7. Click "Finish" 8. Then, we return to the software interface and right-click the Virtual Machine name, click "settings" 9, set the memory 10, and click "Display" at the bottom of the Setting box ", 11. Select a system image, click "CD/DVD", and then click "Browse" in the right column ", select Fedora16 image 12 and click OK. After the settings are completed, the installation starts. Go back to the software page and click "Power on this virtual machine" 13. The following Fedora 16 installation page appears on the computer 14. Press enter to go to www.2cto.com 15, the check and installation dialog box appears. If the disc is correct, you can select "skip" to skip the check. skip the check here.
16. Select the language to be used during installation. Here we select Chinese to meet Chinese habits. Click "Next" 17. In the selection wizard on the keyboard interface, select "American English style" and click "Next" 18. On the storage device, we keep the default options, basic storage device. Click "Next" 19. At this time, the storage device warning dialog box will pop up. Because we are completely new to the installation, there is no data in the hard disk, click "Yes discard any data" and click "Next" 20. enter the name of the computer, in the text box after hostname, enter the appropriate computer name and click "Next" 21. Select the appropriate time zone, select "Shanghai", click "Next" 22, enter the super administrator: root password, and click "Next" 23, if the entered password does not conform to the password complexity, a dialog box is displayed. As this is the test environment, you can click "still use". If it is a real environment, we recommend that you copy the root password. Click "Next" 24. In the installation type, select "create custom Partition Scheme" and click "Next" to better meet your needs, the directory, mode, and size of the partition are displayed. When creating a partition, You need to select the following options: mount point: in Linux, if you want to access a hardware device or file, you need to mount the device to a directory (file), which is the mount point mentioned here. Commonly used mount points in Linux include/(system root directory),/boot (Linux boot directory, saves the kernel files and kernel image files started by the system and other files required for startup) and/usr (stores your applications and files) ,/var (the directory where most log files are stored. Most of the data stored in this directory is changed data ).
File System Type: in Linux, the file types include ext2, ext3, ext4, vfat, swap, lvm, and raid. ext2 and ext3 are common file system types in Linux. Swap, virtual memory, equivalent to the page file of the window system. Allowed drive: the number of hard disks. Size: the size of the space in MB. Fixed size: the value entered in the size text box. Specify space size: You can specify the space size here, which is equivalent to the value in the "size" text box + "fixed size" option. Use all available space for www.2cto.com: use all available space for the hard disk. Forced primary partition: If the selected partition is a logical partition, you can select this option if you want to convert the partition to the primary partition. Otherwise, you do not need to select this option. 25. Click "new" to create a partition. In the displayed window, manually create a partition. Here we will create four partitions: one is the/boot partition used for system boot. We recommend that the size of the boot partition be 100-200 M; one is the virtual memory swap partition used as the memory when the system memory is insufficient. It is recommended that the size be 1-2 times of the memory, but not more than 2 GB; one is the/home partition used to store the user's personal directory, which can be 1-3g or more based on the number of users and the size of the user's data; the last one is the/(root partition) used to store system data. We recommend that you create another partition before creating the partition, so that you can divide the remaining space into the partition. Select the "boot" partition in "mount point", select "ext3" in "File System", and enter the partition size in "size". Enter 256 MB here, in the Create storage dialog box that appears, select "standard partition" standard partition, and click "Create" in sequence at the Mount point, select an appropriate option for the size and other size options. Click "OK" to create the partition.
26./home partition creation 27. Virtual swap partition creation 28./root partition creation 29. And RHEL 5. X is different. In ora 16, you must create a "BIOS Boot" partition to continue the following operations. The size cannot be greater than 2 MB 30. After creating all the partitions, click "Next". The format warning window is displayed. Click format to format the partition. In the confirmation dialog box, click "Write changes to disk". Note that this operation will format all the data in the disk. If data is deployed in the real environment but the disk contains data, back up the data in the disk to install the system 31. Keep the default check box "Install Boot Program on/dev/sda" and click "Next" 32. Select the additional installation package, select "graphic interface", check Fedora 16-i386 and Fedora 16-i386-Update, click "Next" 33, and select the desktop software in the desktop environment. Select the app you want to install, select the app 35, the development environment www.2cto.com 36, and the basic system software package 37. In the language, choose to install "simplified Chinese support" and click "Next" 38. Check the dependency between software packages 39. Install start 40. Complete the installation of Fedora 16. Click "Reboot" to restart the system 41. After the system is restarted, the welcome page is displayed. Click "Forward" 42. In the license information, click "Forward" 43. In the user creation process, enter the user name and password to be created. The user is a regular user 44. You can also click the "advanced" button to set the creation or creation group 45, date, and time for multiple users, if you can connect to the Internet, you can select "Synchronize date and time on the network" or select the options below advanced options
46. If the system cannot access the Internet, you can manually set the date and time. And click "Forward" 47. In the hardware information, you can choose to send hardware information to the official website for official reference. Select "do not send hardware information" 48. In the displayed dialog box, click "No, do not send" to confirm. Click "finish" 49. restart the system to go to the user logon page. Select the user created during installation to log on, or select "Others" to enter the root user creden. . Here, you can log on to the common user created during the installation process. 50. log on to the Fedora 16 system. As this is installed in VMware Workstation and VM-Tools has not been installed, a prompt is displayed. 51. If you are installing windows in VMware, it is very easy to install VMware-Tools. You can automatically install VMware-Tools by running the installation program on the optical drive under my computer, or the optical drive runs automatically for installation. After installation, restart the system. However, installing VMware-Tools after installing Linux in VMware is not as easy as windows. Next, let's learn how to install VMware-Tools in VMware! On the virtual machine that installs Linux, click "Install VMware-Tools" 52 under the "virtual machine" menu. The menu appears, it proves that the image file of the VMware-Tools optical drive has been placed in the drive 53, right-click the compressed package, and then click "decompress ..." 54. Then this interface will appear.
55. We chose to decompress vmtools to the tmp folder. (First click "File System" and then find the "tmp" folder) 56. Double-click to open the "tmp" folder, click "decompress" 57. The file is being decompressed. www.2cto.com 58. The package contains a folder named "vmware-tools-distrib" 59. Open the Terminal simulation program for Linux 60. log on to the su console as an administrator, enter the administrator password, press ENTER 61, enter "cd/tmp" (go to The tmp directory), press ENTER 62, and enter ls/tmp (list all files and folders in the tmp directory) 63. Enter the installation command "sudo vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl" 64. Press enter until you see the terminal "Searching for GCC ..." After that command, press enter again and enter "Space + no". Then, it will appear again, with "wocould you like to change it ?", Enter "Space + no" 65. Press "enter" 66. When "Enjoy" appears on the terminal,-the VMware team "indicates that VMware tools has been installed. Enter "exit" on the terminal to close terminal window 67 and restart. Now you can drag and drop files between the virtual machine and the computer at Will (files cannot be placed on the ora16 desktop). Author Babu 2012