Harry Putnam wrote:
[...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'.
According to your screenshot, you don't even have an sdb. All the kernel sees is one hard disk: sda. If you do have an sdb, check in VMWare that it's actually attached to the VM.
Also, are you sure the VM you downloaded is for the version of VMWare you're actually using? Why not create the VM yourself instead of downloading it?
