On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:27:01AM +0000, Christine wrote: > Having finally bitten the bullet and dumped Windows after years of > threatening to, I am loving using Fedora and I'm slowly figuring out > how to do all the things I need to BUT I seem to be totally unable to > master installing new software. Can someone tell me - preferably in > words of one syllable and in very detailed steps - how I go about > doing this? I can't seem to get the hang of installing even the > simplest things let alone the VMWare that I've been battling with for > the last week. > So please, help!
Ok, firstly, join the Fedora forums. There's a great bunch of helpful people there. VMWare in Fedora--have you seen Falko Timme's excellent howto on howtoforge.com (I think--google for vmware, fedora falko and it should come right up--oh hold on, I'll do it. Sheesh.) Oh wait, my page has a link to it. :) http://howtoforge.com/vmware_server_fedora7 Falko wrote it for F7, but it works in 8 pretty much. Just be aware that the any-any patch he's spoke of has been updated. I have my own page on some things he didn't cover (or that have changed.) http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vmware.html Between those two, I think you get your step by steps. :) Although we both used words of more than one syllable. (And English isn't even Falko's first language.) Now, those instructions are for the VMWare server 1.04 or whatever it is, not the 2.0 beta. Personally, I've found lots to not like about the 2.0 beta, including the fact that if you accept defaults during installation, it can knock out other things that use a web browser, e.g., nagios. Also, you might consider VirtualBox instead. I've found it much faster and lighter on resources. There's a few howtos around, (Falko probably did one). My own just covers using bridging on it. (VMWare uses bridged networking by default, VirtualBox requires a bit of work--but not much, and I think I detail it well.) :) I know it can be frustrating. It seems like most people are using Ubuntu these days, so some of the howtos--including the VirtualBox documentation on bridged networking for Fedora--are written by Ubuntu people, and ignore the fact that some things simply won't work, as written, in Fedora. Anyway, I'm fairly well up on this--my boss pushes me to put VMWare on things, so write back with any problems. I would suggest doing it this way. Start with Falko's howto. If you get stuck, then post, but let me (us) know where you got stuck. Also let us know what version of Fedora, whether 7, 8 or something earlier. (Right now, I'm successfully running VirtualBox on Fedora 9, but it requires a little more experience to get it running.) Fedora's a bit harder than some other distributions. However, as many professionals use RedHat or a clone, like CentOS at work, you'll find a number of knowledgeable people who use it, so most of the problems get solved. (No folks, I'm not really counting myself among those--I just read what they write.) So don't give up--Fedora has some good qualities about it and although I began using it again under protest, I find that I'm actually getting to like some aspects of it. By protest, I mean that as a new job was all RH servers, I figured I'd better start playing with and breaking it, so I was more familiar with its quirks. I use Fedora on my workstations, rather than CentOS, or other more RH server type clones because it's a bit more desktop suited than the server oriented ones. Anyway, for this particular issue, I do suspect I'll be able to help you when you get stuck. (Bows modestly, raises hands to quiet the ---hey, who threw that????) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Forrest: This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that would inevitably cause any girl living to think we are cool upon cool. Yet, we must Clark Kent our way through the dating scene, never to use our unfair advantage. Thank God we're pretty. To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
