This is in reference to my RH7.1 box that sits at home.  A co-worker turned 
me on to VMWare and sent me instructions for downloading and installing but 
apparently something went dreadfully wrong.  Rather than relay the entire 
situation again, here's the e-mail I sent to him:

If anyone has any suggestions, please send them on to me. Help!!

>Well, I went and installed the rpm for VMWare, and followed the instructions
>that you sent to me.  It wouldn't start up at all when I entered
>/usr/bin/vmare, but gave me an error message telling me that I had to run
>/usr/bin/vmware_configure.pl (or something like that), which I did.
>
>Strange things happened after that.  My mouse became more or less
>unresponsive (it would move across the screen and could click on things but
>nothing would execute -- I couldn't even click the "log out" button when I
>shut down).  Now, when I boot the machine, I get the following error:
>
>/home contains a file system with errors, check forced.
>/home:
>Unattached inode 288672
>
>/home: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
>         (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>/u2: clean, 11/1376256 files, 43201/2749115 blocks
> 
>[FAILED]
>
>*** An error occured during the file system check
>*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
>*** whne you leave the shell.
>Give root password for maintenance.
>(or type Control-D for normal startup):
>
>
>This strikes me as kind of bad.  I think I must have done something wrong
>when running vmware_configure.pl.
>
>Silly me, I also didn't have my install disk of Windows 2000 to install on
>the virtual drive that the computer had set up.  But that's a separate
>issue.
>
>I'm going to go through all my normal channels: a brother-in-law who helped
>me put this computer together in the first place, several discussion groups
>and mailing lists, and the tons of documentation that are out there... but
>am I right in thinking that I may have to reinstall Linux?  At any rate,
>I'll let you know what the end result is.  Heh.
>
>Talk to you later.
>
>Richard


Sliante,
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