On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 08:17, John Wilson wrote: > Hello all. > > Now that I've finished tormenting Joe for another day or so, I seem to have a > problem.
What - you actually LISTEN to what Joe has to say? Damn - you've been hornswaggled, mate! (g) > I downloaded VM Ware from the club, installed it and then discovered that I > couldn't even get an evalutation license for it. So...I downloaded the new > version. And guess what? I got the license and it stopped working within > about 10 minutes complaining that there is a new version out there. Of > course there isn't. :-) > > I'm thinking now that I should have deleted the old version and installed the > new one fresh rather than upgraded. Am I right? > > The other question could be a RTFM one, but I couldn't find an intelligable > answer in the FM so I'll try here. (Hates PDF sometimes!) VMWare documentation ain't what it COULD be - it's rather like it's part of RedHat or something - they assume you're a frigging programmer or technodroid and offer only cryptic allusions to realworld issues... Look, you CAN set it up to actually access a physical drive, but in all reality, UNTIL YOU'RE SUPER DOOPER FAMILIAR WITH VMWARE, don't do it. Use virtual HD's instead. You can Run XP in a VMWare session with a VM HD - I do that when I absolutely have to use it - which saves heaps of space overall... Then again, I reckon that I'd rather have only one OS to boot to - and if I need another, I'll run it in a VMWare session with a VM disk (so I can always save the VM HD when I reinstall - or access the same VM HD from another machine on the network) HTH...(and beware the Joe) -- Fri Jun 27 09:35:00 EST 2003 09:35:00 up 2 days, 9:21, 3 users, load average: 1.48, 1.25, 1.13 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * You will receive a legacy which will place you above want.
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