Issue in Installing New VM Machine
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@Lakshmana said:
My Desktop installed with Windows 7.I need to test in Laptop since the testing to be done in my laptop I go for the VMware Workstation.
Doesn't matter what YOUR desktop is as you will be doing the transfer on your friend's system.
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Rufus is a rather small download at 843 Kb.
Copy the ISO from the Disc, and write it to a USB drive using rufus.
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@DustinB3403 said:
If so I'd recommend copying the Bootable Disc to your desktop and then writing it to a USB drive.
This entire thread is about him trying to figure out how to copy it to his desktop.
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I am in Home.I have tried to copy the whole CD contents to my pendrive and tried to boot from the Pendrive and it does not work
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@DustinB3403 said:
Rufus is a rather small download at 843 Kb.
Copy the ISO from the Disc, and write it to a USB drive using rufus.
You are solving a problem that he does not have and makes no sense. There is no need to talk about USB sticks or writing anywhere. The part he needs help with is the part you are glossing over. It's getting the ISO file to the desktop that is the issue. Why would he want a bootable USB stick for VMware Workstation?
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I have tried to copy to my desktop and tried to boot it does not works and also tried in my laptop also.
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@scottalanmiller From what he's saying here Scott is that his DVD drive on his laptop doesn't work, which is where he's running VMWare from to test ISO's.
He needs to get the media off of the DVD and onto a USB or boot over PXE for his laptop.
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@Lakshmana said:
I am in Home.I have tried to copy the whole CD contents to my pendrive and tried to boot from the Pendrive and it does not work
Of course, because you can't copy a filesystem, it doesn't work that way. Nothing there to make it bootable. You need to image it.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller From what he's saying here Scott is that his DVD drive on his laptop doesn't work, which is where he's running VMWare from to test ISO's.
He needs to get the media off of the DVD and onto a USB or boot over PXE for his laptop.
He needs to get it converted to a file rather than a DVD. Making a bootable USB doesn't help the situation.
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@DustinB3403 said:
He needs to get the media off of the DVD and onto a USB or boot over PXE for his laptop.
PXE? That's a remote boot system over the network! He just needs to copy the file like any normal person. Sneakernet, over the LAN, whatever. Let's solve his issue first before going down other rabbit holes.
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Please wait the DVD is already in bootable format.
The bootable format is able to boot in desktop when tried to install it.
I need to convert this bootable DVD to .iso format to show the file to install in my VMware workstation -
@Lakshmana said:
Please wait the DVD is already in bootable format.
The bootable format is able to boot in desktop when tried to install it.
I need to convert this bootable DVD to .iso format to show the file to install in my VMware workstationYes, all of which I said AND provided the command above on how to do it.
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eBut I am using the laptop in Windows 8
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@scottalanmiller Scott you gave him a command for linux.
That won't work for his desktop, which is running Windows 7.
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@Lakshmana said:
eBut I am using the laptop in Windows 8
Like I said... the machine that you are using does not matter. Only the machine with the DVD drive. That's the one that matters and you've not said that that isn't Linux yet even though I pointed this out above.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller Scott you gave him a command for linux.
That won't work for his desktop, which is running Windows 7.
He said it wasn't his machine that he was doing the transfer on. So I'm not worried about the OS on his machines. As he didn't say that the machine with the DVD drive was not Linux after I pointed this out (twice) I was assuming that it was Linux.
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This converter
Might work to convert the Disk to a single ISO file, which you can then use Rufus to write to a thumb drive to boot on your laptop.
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Unfortunately Windows does not come with the functionality that you need like every other OS does. Just another way that Windows is hard for basic tasks.
You can download dd for Windows here: http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.5.zip
