On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:26:57 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] >> In case it matters I'm using 192.168.0.* addresses for my LAN. "Forwarding" >> in NT is enabled. The VMware virtual ethernet adapter under NT has an IP >> address of 192.168.230.1. Is that ok? I'm not sure how the whole emulation >> thing works, so I don't understand how to fix my problems... > >I used DHCP during the potato installation (after loading the kernel and >drivers from the 5 floppy set). Then it immediately was able to finish the >installation from the net.
Are you using DHCP for your LAN, too? Or do you have dial-up networking only? >> Currently two services are running under NT: VMnet Bridge (for VMnet0) and >> VMnet DHCP Server. Do I really need the DHCP server? I normally don't use >> DHCP on my LAN, all IPs are assigned statically. > >Have you tried using an IP addr on the same subnet as NT's original IP? No, I didn't fiddle with it because I don't know exactly what's going on. What exactly is the purpose of the IP address that is assigned to the virtual ethernet adapter? Can I freely choose a different IP? Thanks, Ralf -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
