From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 25 20:15:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mozone.net (mail.mozone.net [206.165.200.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A6337B41A for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mki@localhost) by mozone.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fAQ4F8723784 for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:15:08 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:15:08 -0700 From: mki@mozone.net To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: vmware 3.x + 4.4-(release|stable); howto Message-ID: <20011125211508.C7634@cyclonus.mozone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just an fyi, I had one heck of a time trying to load 4.4-release onto my sony vaio pcg-z505lsk laptop this thanksgiving week(end). After several hours of trial and error, and not finding any good references anywhere, I finally had success following these guidelines: * If using network based (ftp or otherwise) based loading, things seem okay for the most part Solution: none * Trying to load off an iso fails miserably (panic) the moment the os tries to mount the cdrom, especially if it is an ide device, leading to some rather frustrating moments... Solution: Within vmware + configure your drive(s) as emulated scsi devices, * iirc, you may have to specify drive sizes of < 4 gigs * you may be able to get it to work fine with it configured for ide as well + configure your cdrom/dvdrom to be an emulated scsi device as well * you probably want it as target 6 * this step is the most crucial, the cdrom/dvdrom *has* to be scsi + set the cdrom/dvdrom to use your 4.4 iso + set your floppy drive to use the 4.4 mfsroot/kern (or just boot) floppy image(s) [if using the two seperate ones, you'll have to swap the images when the first disk asks you to insert the next disk] * you may not be able to boot off the cdrom, hence this step + proceed with normal setup Also, there is a very annoying problem with sysinstall within vmware where it reads twice the number of keystrokes for each keystroke of the Tab, Spacebar, and Enter keys in particular. If you can bear the annoyance of having to redo your menus over and over until you can escape the double keystroke problem, then you'll be set. Note that this double keystroke problem appears to only happen in sysinstall (curses/console/vmware incompatibilities?). Hope this helps... -mohan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message