Re: WmWare on Debian

1999-07-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Jul, Christian Dysthe wrote about "WmWare on Debian" > Hi, > > I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the > supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on > Debian (I run potato)? > It's VMWare not WNWare, VM = Virtual Mac

Re: WmWare on Debian

1999-07-28 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the > supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on > Debian (I run potato)? I did, on slink. It wasn't that complicated, as long as you

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JP" == John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> On %M 0, Martin Bialasinski wrote >> Currently I do something I do it the other way around. I run Debian >> 2.0 on my 2.1 box. And it is fast enough. I compiled ~50% of the JP> In case it hasn't occured to you, this really isn't a good ide

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-21 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Martin Bialasinski wrote > > >> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SL> Yup. Personally, I think for developers VMWare is something of a > SL> godsend. Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your > SL> machine, give it ~16Mb or so, and then run Debian inside Debian

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> Yup. Personally, I think for developers VMWare is something of a SL> godsend. Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your SL> machine, give it ~16Mb or so, and then run Debian inside Debian. SL> The outer Debian is stable, the inner is

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I haven't tried WINE recently. It seemed fine with some games, and I > got quicken to run partially, but wouldn't want to rely on it. I guess > I should give it another try. > Only MS Money runs pretty well on WINE for me, a 16 bit app. Most other apps en

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Kent West wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions >> on >> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. >> >> >> -- >> Andrew > > You got enough answers that I really don't need to t

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:45:06PM -, Pollywog wrote: >> >> On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: >> > The non-commercial price is discounted to $75 until mid-July and they >> > still offer a 30-day free trial evaluation license. You need to re-run >> > the instal

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on > their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. > > > -- > Andrew You got enough answers that I really don't need to throw in my $0.02, but here goes. I've got it ru

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 05:45:06PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > > The non-commercial price is discounted to $75 until mid-July and they > > still offer a 30-day free trial evaluation license. You need to re-run > > the install script when upgrading kernels, since i

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > The non-commercial price is discounted to $75 until mid-July and they > still offer a 30-day free trial evaluation license. You need to re-run > the install script when upgrading kernels, since it installs some > modules. I'm running potato/kernel 2.2.9 and am a

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: :> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on :> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. : Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for : me. : That is, until I decided it w

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:11:52AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:02:24 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: > > >> Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, > >> and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things > >> with it (lik

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 May, Pollywog wrote about "RE: wmware on Debian" > > On 20-May-99 Steve Lamb wrote: >> Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your machine, give it ~16Mb or >> so, and then run Debian inside Debian. The outer Debian is stable, the >> inner &g

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Rune Linding Raun
wine is not at all the same as vmware two completely differnt pieces of software On 20-May-99 Pollywog wrote: > On 20-May-99 Rob wrote: >>> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions >>> on >>> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. >> >> Just dow

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Steve Lamb wrote: > Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your machine, give it ~16Mb or > so, and then run Debian inside Debian. The outer Debian is stable, the > inner > is unstable. I won't call it the "perfect" sandbox, but for $99 bucks, it > is > a damned good sandbox.

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Mark Tucker
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on > their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. I installed the last beta without any problems. I had NT4 and Win98 working in a box on my X desktop. Performance was

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:02:24 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: >> Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, >> and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things >> with it (like my mouse). I might try

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Dan Willard wrote: > Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and > when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it > (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... > Interesting. When VMWare first came out, I was

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Rob wrote: >> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions >> on >> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. > > Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for > me. > > That is, until I decided it was crap an

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Willard
Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Pollywog [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Rob
> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on > their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for me. That is, until I decided it was crap and removed it ;) Rob.