Tom Bishop wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > Tom Bishop wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > Anyone using vmware? I need to install the tools for a guest os and cannot
> > > for the life of me, figure out how to download to a floppy (within the Linux
> > > host os) and load the files into the guest vm. (I've right clicked,
> > > etc....keep looking for a "save as" ) My host os is Mandrake and the guest os
> > > is Caldera 2.2. Everything is up and running including the host accelerated
> > > server from vmware, but the guest os is unusable until I can install the server
> > > from vmware for it. I feel pretty dumb asking this, but this whole floppy
> > > thing escapes me. I did download the tools to a floppy from Win98, but the
> > > extension changed to tar.tar instead of tar.gz and of course it didn't work.
> > > Also have had no luck installing Win98 in a vm....close, but no cigar.
> > > Thought it would be really cool running Windows on top of Linux. Think this
> > > one might be a vmware problem or a cpu problem, however. Thanks for any help!
> > > Tom (this is actually a veiled Linux question 8-) )
> >
> > You'll need to mount your floppy disk before you can write to it, so
> > type:
> >
> > mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >
> > Download your file either into your home directory and then:
> >
> > cp <file> /mnt/floppy/.
> >
> > or just save your file to /mnt/floppy/<whatever>. You'll probably have
> > to be root to write to the floppy, so the copying might actually leave
> > more hair when you're done.
> >
> > What sort of problems do you have trying to install Win98 as the guest
> > OS?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
> > Network Administrator
> > Advance Packaging Corp.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thankyou, Steve,
> It looks like I was on the right track, just not enough confidence. Also
> think I had a bad floppy. I'm assuming I can mount with my desktop link
> instead of : mount -tmsdos /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy? And why the -tmsdos part? I
> am copying from linux to linux . As you can see, I don't know Jack ...or linux
> either, for that matter. As far as Win98 as a guest OS, I get error messages
The reason for the -tmsdos is because I had a brain fart when I wrote
that message. For some reason, I got the Win98 problems mixed in with
the VMWare problems. I'd convinced myself that you were installing the
Guest OS utilities into Win98. :)
Go ahead and just click on the desktop icon and copy the file onto the
floppy.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
