Re: VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-03 Thread Chris Davies
> Chris Davies writes: >> The host hardware's largely irrelevant. What is important is the virtual >> hardware offered within the VM. I successfully run a 686 based kernel, >> here. Harry Putnam wrote: > What ISO did you use? The most recent from which I've installed is debian-505-i386-netinst.

Re: VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-02 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 11/03/2010 11:03 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Klistvud writes: Dne, 01. 11. 2010 16:28:53 je Harry Putnam napisal(a): I think what you got yourself are images for the Intel Itanium processors. What you need are either the i386 or the x64 (AMD) images. Oh boy another 4.4 GB download... Anothe

Re: VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris Davies writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I hope someone might be able to help me with installing debian as >> guest by way of vmware. > >> I downloaded the iso DVD (4.4 GB what a hefty download) > > If you've got network access you're probably far better off with one of > the netinst images

Re: VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Klistvud writes: > Dne, 01. 11. 2010 16:28:53 je Harry Putnam napisal(a): > > I think what you got yourself are images for the Intel Itanium > processors. What you need are either the i386 or the x64 (AMD) images. Oh boy another 4.4 GB download... Another poster has said it doesn't matter too

Re: VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Davies
Harry Putnam wrote: > I hope someone might be able to help me with installing debian as > guest by way of vmware. > I downloaded the iso DVD (4.4 GB what a hefty download) If you've got network access you're probably far better off with one of the netinst images, and using the network to bring i

Re: VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2010 16:28:53 je Harry Putnam napisal(a): I think what you got yourself are images for the Intel Itanium processors. What you need are either the i386 or the x64 (AMD) images. -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Certifiable Loo

VMware install bi-passes iso file

2010-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
I hope someone might be able to help me with installing debian as guest by way of vmware. I have some small experience with both Debian and VMware and have successfully installed it that way several times. Its been a good while... maybe over a yr. And I'm using a newer version of VMware... 7.1 o

Re: VMWare install can't find header files

2007-04-20 Thread Colin Alie
I'm in the process of trying to reconfigure VMWare Workstation 5.0 after upgrading to Etch. I also saw the error you mention. In my case, it was caused by not having the folder asm present in /usr/src/linux/include. I created the symlink asm-->asm-i386 which resolved this particular issue. U

VMWare install can't find header files

2007-04-16 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm installing VMWare player and have got to the stage where the installer wants to build a module. The prompt shows the following: > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match > your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Following other posts I've installed the head

Re: VMware install

2001-02-22 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:48:10AM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote: > So where are the C header files it wants? They're part of your the kernel source tree. If you're running one of the Debian-supplied kernels (or using kernel-package to generate your own kernel debs) you can probably just insta

VMware install

2001-02-22 Thread SamBozo Debian User
Here is the error: - Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C co

Re: VMware install in Potato trouble (solved)

2000-12-22 Thread Jack Morgan
> * Jack Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I tried using /usr/include but got the above error. My kernel is 2.2.17 > > binary. Do I need to recompile a new kernel. Any suggestions? > > If you're kernel is the kernel shipped with the install disk, > you can install the kernel-headers-2.2.17 pac

Re: VMware install in Potato trouble

2000-12-22 Thread Defresne Sylvain
* Jack Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried using /usr/include but got the above error. My kernel is 2.2.17 > binary. Do I need to recompile a new kernel. Any suggestions? If you're kernel is the kernel shipped with the install disk, you can install the kernel-headers-2.2.17

Re: VMware install in Potato trouble

2000-12-22 Thread Rino Mardo
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:50:50PM +0900 or thereabouts, Jack Morgan wrote: > I'm trying to install VMware on Potato, and I'm getting the following > error: > > ---Error > > None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running > kernel. Do > you want this script to try to bui

Re: VMware install in Potato trouble

2000-12-21 Thread jeff
Why not use /usr/src/linux/include as the script recommends? That worked for me. -jeff On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:50:50PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I'm trying to install VMware on Potato, and I'm getting the following > error: > > ---Error > > None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is

VMware install in Potato trouble

2000-12-21 Thread Jack Morgan
I'm trying to install VMware on Potato, and I'm getting the following error: ---Error None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)