From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Aug 5 17:46:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74B037B5FE for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.84.77]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000806004646.CJCR26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:46:46 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA00310; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:46:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 01:46:35 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: vns@delta.odessa.ua Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies? Message-ID: <20000806014635.A255@parish> References: <200007271242.IAA16126@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> <20000805150815.C254@parish> <200008052359.TAA00434@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008052359.TAA00434@jupiter.delta.ny.us>; from vsilyaev@mindspring.com on Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:59:49PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:59:49PM -0400, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > > 2. Create new dummy configuration, without any hardware, and try it. It > useless, but at least you should see a Phoenix BIOS logo. > OK, I tried and it just rebooted again. This is the config file I was using: #!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware config.version = 2 # No cdrom installed # Disk Drive Info # scsi0:0.present = TRUE # scsi0:0.deviceType = "plainDisk" # scsi0:0.fileName = "win95.hba" # scsi0.present = TRUE # No floppy installed # floppy0.present = FALSE # No networking installed # Memory size memsize = 32 # Nvram nvram = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.nvram # Log file log.fileName = /usr/marko/.vmware/win95/win95.log # Hints guestOS = win95 Is the win95.nvram file supposed to exist? I haven't got one on my system/ > If it doesn't help, that means you are have incompatible hardware > (never heard before about that). It's a K6-233 (original K6, not a -2 or -3) Gigabyte 430TX based motherboard, Award 4.51-PGM BIOS 64MB RAM 2 x 4.5GB IBM UW-SCSI on a Diamond Fireport 40 (Symbios 53c875j chip) controller. > > -- > Regards, > Vladimir -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message