Hi Shuping,
I have done this on several machines....
> I have several SL installations on VMware. When creating a new machine, have you chosen "Linux operating System" and
> "Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 (32-bit)" for SL 5.3 32-bit?
as described by Urs. In fact, I have installed 32 and 64 bit versions
using the .iso image directly. I have never seen anything like the
error in your message.
Good luck
Paul