On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 10:17, Robert Tillsley wrote: > > The other thing was in regard to installing the vmware tools. The menu > which is meant to do it, doesn't work (I think its because its not > designed to work with debian). Its asks if you want to and then doesn't > provide any feedback as to its lack of success. In the bottom left of > the vmware screen is says as it did before the attempt that the vmware > tools aren't installed.
Hmmm, been a while since I installed a linux system under VMWare - usually I keep it for Solaris and Windows partitions. But from memory, the "install tools" option does not actually install anything. What it does is configure an ISO image and mount it on /mnt/cdrom (RedHat mount point - don't know about debian). So after clicking the install tools option, check if your CD is mounted. If not, try and mount it (it should mount the image, not a real CD). I think there is a gzipped tar file there, which, when extracted, has the executable to install the tools. So simple %-( not! If you are still having problems, try looking for the iso image containing the tools. In my installation they are: ls /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/ freebsd.iso linux.iso windows.iso Just mount the linux iso image and see my earlier comments. Regards, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
