You cannot change the grp or any permissions of a dos/win partition
"on the fly".
The filesystem just don't deal with specific permission (someone correct me if
I am wrong)
You need to mount your disk by somebody of the vmware group to do
get the vmware grp onwership.
Why do you need to mount your disk for ? vmware 1.xx doesn't require to
mount your raw disk (in fact it is better NOT to do it normally. Again, someone can
correct me there)
Philippe
Patrick O Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This isn't a redhat-specific message but... Could
> anyone help me out here with setting this up to work?
>
> I have a dual boot system (laptop) with Win98 and RH.
> I have VMWare 2.0Beta that I have been trying to setup
> to use the preinstalled windoze 98. I created a new
> group called vmware and added root and myself to its
> members. I would like to assign /dev/hda1, my windoze
> partition, to the vmware group and give read/write
> access to the vmware members (myself and root). I
> created this group, unmounted /win (dev/hda1), edited
> fstab to have:
>
> /dev/hda1 /win vfat vmware,auto 0 0 as the
> appropriate fstab entry. I then remounted /win but the
> group assignment remains root. I then tried to chgrp
> of /win recursively using chgrp -R vmware /win (as root)
> but I get a message that I (root) am not a member of
> the vmware group. Am too! Am too!
>
> If I look at /etc/group I see "vmware::503:root,patrick"
> so I AM a member of that group.
>
> What is the deal? I do not want to waste disk space with
> a needless virtual disk for ANOTHER install of Win98 just
> for vmware use...I want to use the already extant win98.
>
> Do I need to change the group of /dev/hda1 itself?
>
> patrick
>
>
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