Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Dick Davies
* Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0729 22:29]: Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Ben Paley
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:06, Dick Davies wrote: etc, etc... sod portupgrade - manually pkg_delete all the vmware crap, then pkg_add it. On boot, I get this message: kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or directory -bash-2.05b# locate

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. In order of increasing stability, they are: CURRENT = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least stable of the 3 RELEASE = released to the populous at large (Beta) and fairly

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. In order of increasing stability, they are: CURRENT = currently in development (Alpha) and by far the least

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Then why do I hear that 5.2.1-RELEASE is not ready to be called STABLE? FreeBSD's -CURRENT tree has generally been reasonably stable, but there have been periods (including quite recently with threading/#define PREEMPTION) where -CURRENT has not

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:31 pm, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: Then why do I hear that 5.2.1-RELEASE is not ready to be called STABLE? FreeBSD's -CURRENT tree has generally been reasonably stable, but there have been periods

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: [ ... ] OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I often see 4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to what you describe above. That's right, 4.10 is the latest -STABLE release. What does RELEASE

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:14 pm, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 21, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Joshua Tinnin wrote: [ ... ] OK, as I understand, the branches are -CURRENT and -STABLE. But I often see 4.10-STABLE recommended for production use. This is probably due to what you

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/21/2004 11:34 AM Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:20 am, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/2004 3:45 PM Thompson, Jimi wrote: FreeBSD has 3 types of distros - CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE. In order of increasing stability, they are: CURRENT = currently

Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Paley
Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Chris
Ben Paley wrote: Hello everybody, If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD

RE: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window /SNIP Ben,

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:32, Chris wrote: Why are you using CURRENT? Don't you know that you can expect things to break, not work, and overall see the end of the world as you know it? Well - maybe not the latter. Perhaps you might be better served running a STABLE branch instead of an

Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 23:45, Thompson, Jimi wrote: If you have a machine that you actually _use_, my advice is that you should definitely not run current. While you will get the same kinds of responses that you typically get from the M$ OS, it's probably not what you want a production box,