On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 10:17, Robert Tillsley wrote: > I've got a test server setup in vmware running sarge (2.6 kernel).
If your experience is anything like mine, running Sarge in vmware just about dragged the host to a stop, even worse that running W98 in vmware. > > I've got two problems that I'm having trouble resolving: > > The first is that I can't get X working. Yes I know X on a server > shouldn't be necessary on a server, but I'm playing with vmware. The > error I get is: > > GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X : -audit 0 auth > /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 > Error: Command could not be executed! > Please install the X server or edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to point to the > right place. > > Now I installed xfree68, but there is no X in that folder. Can anyone > give me an idea of where to start troubleshooting? > > The other thing was in regard to installing the vmware tools. The menu > which is meant to do it, doesn't work (I think its because its not > designed to work with debian). Its asks if you want to and then doesn't > provide any feedback as to its lack of success. In the bottom left of > the vmware screen is says as it did before the attempt that the vmware > tools aren't installed. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Cheers > > Robert Tillsley > > Network Administrator > St Vincent's College > www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
