On Tuesday, 6. February 2007 10:56, Paul Walsh wrote: > Background: > > The PC I use at work (Intel D945GCZL motherboard, Intel BTX P4, SATA2 HDD) > has, until yesterday, been running SUSE 10.1 or openSUSE 10.2 (depending > what mood I'm in). I'd successfully installed vmware server 1.0.1 on each > version so that I could run a windoze XP VM (sadly, practically everything > here is a product of Redmond!). > > >From the start I'd really wanted Debian on as I'd become somewhat used to > > it on other systems (though I still have > > difficulty locating some things in the menus). I'd previously tried to > install Sarge (32bit and 64bit) but neither saw the SATA drive nor onboard > NIC. Yesterday I got round to installing Etch which happily saw the NIC > and HDD and installed almost flawlessly. I say "almost" because there I was > using the GUI install for the first time and I thought I'd switch console > using CTRL-ALT-Fn which promptly caused an error (sorry, no details to hand > - I simply restarted and avoided that key combo!) Also, grub failed to > install, so I ended up manually editing menu.lst on /dev/sda1 (the openSUSE > 10.2 partition where grub is installed) So I'm not the only one who had problems installing grub under debian.
> > Once I'd got the system up and running I needed to get dual-head display > sorted out (Sapphire ATI Radeon X550 with 2 x 19" AMW M199D displays) which > I eventually managed by taking Monitor, Modes, Screen, Device and > ServerLayout sections from the xorg.conf used by SUSE and removing anything > that seemed SUSE related (SAX2 stuff). > > Finally I was ready to give vmware a shot and that's where I'm hitting a > brick wall. > > First off, uname -a gives the following: > > Linux etchtest 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > when I try running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl it complains about libraries: > > The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server > may be missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware: > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) > libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7f4a000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f46000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f35000) > libX11.so.6 => not found > libXtst.so.6 => not found > libXext.so.6 => not found > libXt.so.6 => not found > libICE.so.6 => not found > libSM.so.6 => not found > libXrender.so.1 => not found > libz.so.1 => not found > libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7e08000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f81000) > > This program cannot tell for sure, but you may need to upgrade libc5 to > glibc before you can run VMware Server. > > Trouble is, ldconfig -p has no trouble locating the libraries: > ldconfig -p > *snip* > > libX11.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 > libXtst.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6 > etc. > > Is this a 64bit vs 32bit problem? Has anyone successfully got vmware > server running under 64bit Etch? If so, any suggestions would be gratefully > received! :) > Yes it is a 64bit vs 32bit problem. Vmware tells the Server runs under 64bit Linux, but this is only half the truth. You have to install the 32bit libraries (ia32-libs). > > Apart from the vmware problems everything seems to be OK so far. I'm not > sure whether it's psychological but Etch does seem to start up quicker than > Suse :-) > > -- > Paul Walsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
