Patrick O Neil wrote:
> This isn't a redhat-specific message but... Could
> anyone help me out here with setting this up to work?
>
> I have a dual boot system (laptop) with Win98 and RH.
> I have VMWare 2.0Beta that I have been trying to setup
> to use the preinstalled windoze 98. I created a new
> group called vmware and added root and myself to its
> members. I would like to assign /dev/hda1, my windoze
> partition, to the vmware group and give read/write
> access to the vmware members (myself and root). I
> created this group, unmounted /win (dev/hda1), edited
> fstab to have:
>
> /dev/hda1 /win vfat vmware,auto 0 0 as the
> appropriate fstab entry. I then remounted /win but the
> group assignment remains root. I then tried to chgrp
> of /win recursively using chgrp -R vmware /win (as root)
> but I get a message that I (root) am not a member of
> the vmware group. Am too! Am too!
>
> If I look at /etc/group I see "vmware::503:root,patrick"
> so I AM a member of that group.
>
> What is the deal? I do not want to waste disk space with
> a needless virtual disk for ANOTHER install of Win98 just
> for vmware use...I want to use the already extant win98.
>
> Do I need to change the group of /dev/hda1 itself?
There is no reason to mount your Windows 98 partition. Simply run the
'Configuration Wizard' and when you get to the screen that asks about
'Disk Type Setting' choose 'Existing physical disk'. When you select that
option it will show what IDE drives you have access rights to, i.e.
/dev/hda - read/write access, /dev/hdb - not present, and so on. If you
don't have access rights check the /dev/hda and see who the owner and
group is, i.e. "brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 May 5 1998
/dev/hda", then make yourself part of whatever the group is or make vmware
part of that group. The wizard will then show you what partitions exist on
the hard drive and let's you select which ones you want to use. I also
suggest that you create a profile in 98 for running inside a VM.
--
T. S. Collins
QA Engineer
VMware Inc.
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