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Linspire in VMware

wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
edited February 2005 in Software
Hello, has anyone gotten linspire to work in VMware? I can get to a "promt" but I can't go into a gui mode...

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  • noonenoone
    uh, did you install the vmadditions first? you need them to run x.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    no I didn't do that....
  • noonenoone
    try that first as root.
  • noonenoone
    vmware and vpc use shitty video drivers that arent compatable with shit without the additions.
  • Ka0sKa0s
    See why I dont like VMWare? :P I got Linspire working the first time I tried in VPC 5...
  • QQ
    VMware is fine for what I use it for, which is ReactOS testing.

    -Q

    PS. And Linspire I think of as the newbie Linux flav, there are FAR better ones (RH, SuSE) out there.
  • eugruseugrus
    wingzeroismine wrote:
    Hello, has anyone gotten linspire to work in VMware? I can get to a "promt" but I can't go into a gui mode...
    you should install VMware tools first ( VM -> VMware tools)
    it will set an ISO with VM tools as a CD-ROM
    mount it using `mount -t /dev/cdrom`
    go to the dir you have mounted cdrom on and copy the archive to the disk
    unpack it and run the script which is in it

    particular!: set OS in VMware - Linux
  • crashacrasha
    i had a problem getting into gui mode in slackware when i 1st got it (i used it in VPC and on my laptop) and i just had to use the startx command to get into gui.
  • nighticenightice
    That's Slackware's default config, to not start X.
  • noonenoone
    you have to add that to the runlevel (if yer using gentoo) or edit the config files to make runlevel 5 default.
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