On Sunday 18 November 2001 08:03, Susan Macchia enunciated: > Regarding the disk it built, I didn't have to do a thing - it created a 4G > disk and formatted it when I created the virtual machine. > > Just got my com port working so I can sync with my palm and the Daytimer > Addressbook. I usually use Jpilot and pilot-xfer, but need to keep the > address book up to date (expecially for those xmas cards!) > > Bruce Marshall wrote: > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 9:21 am, Susan Macchia wrote: > >> Again, even with these limitations, the fact that it runs without > >> booting into a specialized kernel is a plus to me. Not that I have time > >> to roll my own, but I want to be able to play without having to worry > >> that I can't run my critical window's apps. > > > > I'm curious as to what type of VMW disk you built and whether you had to > > format it. > > > > I was using 2.0.4 and had one of their special 'plain' disks and I don't > > ever recall having to partition or format it. It was 4GB in size. > > > > Now, moving to 3.0, I built a new 'virtual' disk of 4.4GB and had to > > partition and format it before it was visible to VMW. Didn't think that > > would be necessary. But I was blown away by being able to run Partition > > Magic (virtually) to partition it. Worked flawlessly by booting the PM > > diskettes.
Is Susan, running the full version or ? For yes, I also had to create thefs and format. I also in 2.x could only get a vm of 2gig and only in 3.0 have I had it bigger 4gig default. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
