Tom Bishop wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Anyone using vmware? I need to install the tools for a guest os and cannot
> for the life of me, figure out how to download to a floppy (within the Linux
> host os) and load the files into the guest vm. (I've right clicked,
> etc....keep looking for a "save as" ) My host os is Mandrake and the guest os
> is Caldera 2.2. Everything is up and running including the host accelerated
> server from vmware, but the guest os is unusable until I can install the server
> from vmware for it. I feel pretty dumb asking this, but this whole floppy
> thing escapes me. I did download the tools to a floppy from Win98, but the
> extension changed to tar.tar instead of tar.gz and of course it didn't work.
> Also have had no luck installing Win98 in a vm....close, but no cigar.
> Thought it would be really cool running Windows on top of Linux. Think this
> one might be a vmware problem or a cpu problem, however. Thanks for any help!
> Tom (this is actually a veiled Linux question 8-) )
You'll need to mount your floppy disk before you can write to it, so
type:
mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Download your file either into your home directory and then:
cp <file> /mnt/floppy/.
or just save your file to /mnt/floppy/<whatever>. You'll probably have
to be root to write to the floppy, so the copying might actually leave
more hair when you're done.
What sort of problems do you have trying to install Win98 as the guest
OS?
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corp.
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