From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 25 12:46: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E57B37B974 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA16585; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:45:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: more vmware From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Mar 2000 21:45:55 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Speaking of vmware, the installation script should warn the user that VMWare uses sparse files in /tmp to back the VM's memory, and that if the partition that holds /tmp doesn't have enough free space, it'll bomb *badly*. A nice trick is: # mkdir /usr/tmp # ln -s /usr/tmp /compat/linux/tmp (provided that /usr has sufficient free space). Me, I already had /compat symlinked to /usr/compat, so I only had to mkdir /compat/linux/tmp. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message