installation von vmware tools in VMWare + Debian Woody 2.4

2003-12-04 Thread Jean Fiedler
Also mei Problem ist folgendes ich hab Debian unter VMWare installiert. läuft alles supi. Hab Momentan kein KDE etc. wollte erst VMWare Tools installieren. konnte sie auch installieren, nur beim konfigurieren haperts! VMWARE meint : What is the location of the directory of C header files that

Re: installation von vmware tools in VMWare + Debian Woody 2.4

2003-12-04 Thread Heimo Ponnath
Hallo Jean, Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2003 18:02 schrieb Jean Fiedler: Kann mir jemand sagen, wo sich das verzeicnis befindet, oder wo ich die header files herbekomme? zunächst einmal musst Du wissen, welchen Kernel Du installiert hast. Dann aktualisierst Du mit apt-get update und suchst

Re: installation von vmware tools in VMWare + Debian Woody 2.4

2003-12-04 Thread J-T Krug
Hallo Jean, Jean Fiedler schrieb: Also mei Problem ist folgendes ich hab Debian unter VMWare installiert. läuft alles supi. Hab Momentan kein KDE etc. wollte erst VMWare Tools installieren. konnte sie auch installieren, nur beim konfigurieren haperts! VMWARE meint : What is the location of the

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 04:12, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:58:19AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: Is there someone here with an experience running VmWare 3.1.1 in Woody? I just need to know if this is at all possible without any major tweaking. Mostly, yes. Just run

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 12 Jun 2002 13:46:46 +0200 Helgi Örn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I get when I start the installation with RPM: (snip) So what's the problem? I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that? Why are you trying to use the

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that? Never do that. Use alien if you can't find a non-RPM version of the package. -- Colin Watson

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:24, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Why are you trying to use the RPM? Why not use the TAR archive at the link below (taken directly from VMWare's web-site): http://vmware-svca.www.conxion.com/software/VMware-workstation-3.1.1-1790.tar.gz Because that's what I had here,

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that? Never do that. Use alien if you can't find a non-RPM version of the

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:20:53PM +0200, Helgi ?rn Helgason wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that?

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:20:53PM +0200, Helgi ?rn Helgason wrote: Please explain why RPM shouldn't be used when it's there? The Linux (rpm)package is not dist-specific AFAIK and RPM is installed in Woody so why not? I've never before seen or used RPM in Debian so I thought it was

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:26, Colin Watson wrote: I believe it's there for extracting files manually from RPMs, building RPMs, and that sort of thing. Using it to install packages on your live system is dangerous because there's no protection against RPM packages stomping all over things that

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien instead: Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packaging

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Helgi ?rn Helgason wrote: Now when I run the tarball installation I can't seem to give the installer the right information when it asks me: *What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel?* If you compiled your

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 12 Jun 2002 15:58:05 +0200 Helgi Örn Helgason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now when I run the tarball installation I can't seem to give the installer the right information when it asks me: *What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel?* Do you have

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.12 09:58 Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:26, Colin Watson wrote: I believe it's there for extracting files manually from RPMs, building RPMs, and that sort of thing. Using it to install packages on your live system is dangerous because there's no protection

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien instead: Using rpm directly will bypass the Debian packaging

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Helgi writes: Please explain why RPM shouldn't be used when it's there? RPM is there so that alien can use it to convert packages. The Linux (rpm)package is not dist-specific... It is specific to RPM-based didtributions. Using both RPM and dpkg on the same system will result in each

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:41:32PM +0200, Helgi ?rn Helgason wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 16:20, Ian D. Stewart wrote: Look in /usr/src. Assuming you have installed the kernel-header package, there should be a directory called /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19, or something similiar. HTH. Ian I installed the kernel-image-2.4.18-686 package with

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 10:20, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some weird oddities combined with that? Never do

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 11:41, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Qua, 2002-06-12 às 11:04, Helgi Örn Helgason escreveu: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:27, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Rpm is installed in Woody only if you select it. It's available in section admin, priority optional. In the package desciption you will find a strong suggestion to use alien

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-07 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 04:12, Paul Johnson wrote: Mostly, yes. Just run the vmware config, and be sure to build those kernel modules. If you use devfs, you'll need to let devfsd know this in it's config files so the vmware devices don't get smacked down on next reboot. Hi, Could you send me

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:51:19AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: Could you send me these required changes... :) Your /etc/devfs/devices file should look something like the attached. -- Baloo # devices file # format: name [bc] major minor uid gid mode # or: directory-name d uid gid mode # #

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 23:54, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:51:19AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: Could you send me these required changes... :) Your /etc/devfs/devices file should look something like the attached. After running wmware-config, do a ls -l /dev/vm* and make

VmWare on Woody

2002-06-06 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! Is there someone here with an experience running VmWare 3.1.1 in Woody? I just need to know if this is at all possible without any major tweeking. Cheers, Helgi Örn -- http://www.sacred-eagle.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-06 Thread Quenten Griffith
Yes I am and it runs great right out of the box with the 2.4.18 kernel. Helgi Örn wrote: Hello all! Is there someone here with an experience running VmWare 3.1.1 in Woody? I just need to know if this is at all possible without any major tweeking. Cheers, Helgi Örn -- http://www.sacred

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-06 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank's. Great! now I can iron over a RedHat with a Woody... :-) Cheers, Helgi Örn On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 02:00, Quenten Griffith wrote: Yes I am and it runs great right out of the box with the 2.4.18 kernel. Is there someone here with an experience running VmWare 3.1.1 in Woody? I just

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:58:19AM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: Is there someone here with an experience running VmWare 3.1.1 in Woody? I just need to know if this is at all possible without any major tweeking. Mostly, yes. Just run the vmware config