Fedora Core 5 was released yesterday, I attempted to upgrade my existing Fedora Core 4 installation in VMWare Workstation 5.5.0 and encountered a problem.

The Problem

Fedora isn't automatically detecting the VMWare SCSI device, it presents a warning that there were no hard drives were detected.

The Solution

I found you can resolve this by manually adding the BusLogic device during setup. Follow these steps:

Installation Process

1. Default Boot Screen - Boot from the Fedora Core 5 installation media as normal
2. Warning Message - You'll see "No hard drives have been found." warning dialog
3. List of Automatically Detected Devices - The installer will show detected drivers but SCSI controller will be missing
4. Manually Selecting the "BusLogic MultiMaster SCSI" Driver - Click "Add Device" and select the BusLogic driver from the list
5. List of Detected Devices - The drivers list should now include the BusLogic driver and hard drives will be detected

Result

After doing this everything installed normally, Good Luck!!