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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
To: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
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Subject: Re: vmware2
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No, if I have what you're talking about right, then it treats a floppy
image as the actual floppy and installs from there... I'm not really sure
what you're talking about though... (I don't remember anything like that
with my installation of vmware)

Ken

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Gunnar Flygt wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:20:34AM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > you need to mount linprocfs... first remove anything you put in
> > /usr/compat/linux/proc, then
> >
> > mount -t linprocfs /proc /usr/compat/linux/proc
> >
> > That's it!
>
> Worked of course, immediately. :) What doesn't work though is the
> toolkit-installation. It says it opens a connection so that the cdrom
> will be (virtually I guess) used as the device for installation.
> However, the system says the resource is occupied. Any solutions to
> this?
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> >
> > > Hello! I searched the archives, and there seems to be nothing concerning
> > > vmware since 1 year back, and nothing answered my question. So here we
> > > go.
> > >
> > > I just installed vmware2 on my new 4.5-STABLE
> > >
> > > When running vmware it complained about the linprocfs not being mounted.
> > > So I just created the files and directorys described in the linprocfs
> > > man page. To no help though, since when starting vmware I get an error
> > >
> > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> > > Possibly an installation error?
> > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> > > Possibly an installation error?
> > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> > > Possibly an installation error?
> > > Cannot open VMware Workstation executable file.
> > > Possibly an installation error?
> > > Module 10 initialization succeeded.
> > >
> > > I press OK on that one and gets the WMware Workstation dialog for
> > > setting up a new system. If I choose "Run the Configuration Wizard." I
> > > get the following error:
> > >
> > > Error opening /proc/meminfo:
> > > child process exited abnormally
> > >
> > > So how do I proceed from here?
> > >
> > > --
> > >                            __o
> > > regards, Gunnar       ---_ \<,_
> > > email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_)
> > >
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> >
>
> --
>                            __o
> regards, Gunnar       ---_ \<,_
> email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_)
>
>


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