Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread Gary
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:09:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, bsdfsse wrote: I give up on trying to get VMWare 3.2 to work on either FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me. After 5 full days of trial and error on 3 machines, I think I can say it needs to be looked at

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread bsdfsse
Just saw this.. There is a new kid on the block called. Serenity Virtual Station, very similar to VMWare, but they have just released a version specifically for FreeBSD.. This is beta software, (not free), and although If they supporr FreeBSD, then I will support them. I tried to purchase their

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 02 October 2004 12:18 am, bsdfsse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saw this.. There is a new kid on the block called. Serenity Virtual Station, very similar to VMWare, but they have just released a version specifically for FreeBSD.. This is beta software, (not free), and although

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 October 2004 05:09, bsdfsse wrote: [...] The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release installation with networking disabled (following Christian's docs). Every other configuration resulted in losing access to the hard-drive

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread bsdfsse
Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171871667 Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Those are the same errors I am getting! It's somewhat of a relief to see other people getting the same

RE: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-02 Thread JohnsoBS
-Original Message- From: bsdfsse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 4:54 PM To: Christian Hiris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up) Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA

Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

2004-10-01 Thread bsdfsse
I give up on trying to get VMWare 3.2 to work on either FreeBSD 4.x or 5.x. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me. After 5 full days of trial and error on 3 machines, I think I can say it needs to be looked at by a non-newby. The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release