On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:21:36PM -0500, Kurt Kehler wrote:
> I'm trying to install vmware 1.1.2 under Slackware 4. At one point in the
> install script I am asked:
>
> "What is the directory under which the init scripts reside (it should
> contain init.d/, and from rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?"
>
> And I reply: /etc/rc.d
>
> Then I'm told: "The path "/etc/rc.d" is a directory which does not contain
> a init.d directory."
> and: "What is the directory under which the init
> scripts reside (it should contain init.d/, and from rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?"
>
> I think that Slackware doesn't have an /etc/init.d directory. Is it
> possible to fool the VMWare install script into thinking it does, maybe by
> creating /etc/init.d and linking it to point to /etc/rc.d?
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt Kehler
The ideas is along the right lines. Slackware uses BSD style startup
scripts (all?)most other Linux distributions use SYSV style scripts.
Slackware keeps all it's scripts in /etc/rc.d
SYSV startup keeps all the scripts in either /etc/rc.d/init.d
or /etc/init.d, then has a directory for each runlevel, rc0.d through
rc6.d, and symlinks the appropriate scripts for each runlevel into
the associated directory.
Now. To solve the slackware problems try this:
make a directory under /tmp that has seven directories in it.
i.e.:
cd /tmp
mkdir myrcdir
cd myrcdir
mkdir init.d rc0.d rc1.d rc2.d rc3.d rc4.d rc5.d rc6.d
when you go through the VMWare install, tell it to put the scripts
in /tmp/myrcdir
then, when the install finishes,
mv /tmp/myrcdir/init.d/vmware /etc/rc.d
add 2 lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
which read
#Starting VMWare stuff
/etc/rc.d/vmware start
There should be 2 lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.6 that read
# Try to turn off quota and accounting
if [ -x /usr/sbin/quotaoff ]
right before these, add a line that says
/etc/rc.d/vmare stop
and I believe it should work ok. Please let me know either
way.
Hope this helps
greg
--
this is not here
