Problem installing Fedora18/19 on VMWare

During my attempts to install Fedora as virtual machine we got following error:

VMWare Fedora problem
dracut-initqueue[350]: mount: /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
dracut-initqueue[350]: warning: Could not boot

Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue
Type "journalctl" to view systm logs.

dracut:/#

The solution is pretty simple. The problem is inside VMWare automatical installer and VMWare’s autoinst.iso image which is automatically connected to virtual machine.
To resolve this issue, stop your virtual machine, open Edit virtual machine settings and remove first CD drive with mounted autoinst.iso.

How to fix problem when installing Fedora on VMW

When you remove this iso from you VM, run it again and everything will work as expected.

Fedora installation

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