From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 03:09:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFB616A4CE; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 03:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F9543D2D; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 03:09:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfsse@optonline.net) Received: from [192.168.0.28] (ool-43532b7b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.43.123]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I4X002CDSR666@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:09:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:09:15 -0400 From: bsdfsse In-reply-to: <415D8687.7040905@optonline.net> Message-id: <415E1BDB.4020203@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) References: <415B40E0.5030708@optonline.net> <16732.17233.408255.749193@satchel.alerce.com> <415D81C4.1090200@optonline.net> <415D8687.7040905@optonline.net> cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 03:09:08 -0000 I give up on trying to get VMWare 3.2 to work on either FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me. After 5 full days of trial and error on 3 machines, I think I can say it needs to be looked at by a non-newby. The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release installation with networking disabled (following Christian's docs). Every other configuration resulted in losing access to the hard-drive as soon as I hit the VM's "Power On" button. I might try again if there is a known working solution, but for now I have to do a 6-week project on native Winblows. I learned a ton, and wouldn't use any other OS on a server. I hope to run it on my desktop soon. thx.