On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:33:55PM -0500, John Crabtree wrote: > I'm looking at installing Gentoo using VMware 4.0, is there a HOWTO that > explains how to do this? Or can someone who has already installed Gentoo > using VMware 4.0 spare some time to explain what I need to do. Thank you
I haven't installed it under vmware 4.0 specifically (think it was 3.x) but it works pretty much as expected if you are familiar with vmware. Set up a new vmware session and point the CDrom to either your real CD with a gentoo live boot cd in it or point it to an ISO image, boot the vmware session, if it doesn't boot then check to make sure that it's set to boot from CD in the bios, reboot, and you should get the live CD booting up. If you're wondering more specifically about what devices to use, etc, I recall that the vmware network interface will use the pcnet32 module, and for video there is an XFree driver on the vmware site that you can stick in with the other drivers in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. After the vmware module is in place, change the driver in the /etc/XF86Config file to be "vmware" restart gdm and off you go! Other than knowing those three things though, it's exactly like a gentoo install on a real system: - point cd to real CD or ISO and set to boot - vmware ethernet uses pcnet32 - vmware xfree86 has it's own module HTH, let me know if you've got any other vmware+gentoo questions. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
