From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jun 22 17:33:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from netcom.com (netcom2.netcom.com [199.183.9.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8292037C016 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:33:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stanb@netcom.com) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA17235 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Stan Brown Message-Id: <200006230032.RAA17235@netcom.com> Subject: VMWare on 4.0 STABLE To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Emulation) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:32:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am trying to get VMWare 2.0 to run on afreshly installed 4.0 STABLE laptop. I installed the port, grabed the Linux profs port, and installed it. All of this went withou any errors. Now what I wan to do in te long run (I think) is to use the partitons of my multiboot machine as drives for VWARe (please feel free to tell me this is a bad idea, if it is). My disk is partioned as folllows: slice 1 NT 4.0 slice 2 DOS (Yes really) slice 3 FreeBSD 4.0 STABLE I would appreciate some advice on how to get this working. The VMWare setup wizzard does not seem to think these slices exist. In any cas, I decided to try something simple (I thought) to at leas get something runing. I ran the stup wizzard, and told it to creat a 200M virtual disk for DOS. All this seemed to go OK. Then I put the first disk of the DOS install set in the floppy dirve, and hit the "Power On" buttom in vmware. I got an error about reuning on a remote drive, which I don;t understand. In any case, it flashed and came back to the original white screen. I invoked the configuration editr, turned of a few things (CDROM, network) and tried again, at this point the floppy drive light came on. That was 10 minutes ago. Now the floppy light has gone out, and I still have the smae blank window. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone sugest how to get this working? -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. --C2AD137BFCF.961718080/hub.freebsd.org-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message