Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-23 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
--- "John C. Plummer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks to Nuhn, Tom, John and Andrew for your > responses. Here's how it has progressed: uname > indicates a 2.2.12 kernel. The existing source is > in > /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12/include. The apt- > get as Nuhn suggested created a set

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Hi, my suggestion is that you do what other helpful souls have already said: uname -r (or a for the full listing) to find which kernel you're running. And then get online go to a prompt and type apt-get install kernel-source.2.2.XX After that installs you should find kernel-source.

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
Hi, my suggestion is that you do what other helpful souls have already said: uname -r (or a for the full listing) to find which kernel you're running. And then get online go to a prompt and type apt-get install kernel-source.2.2.XX After that installs you should find kernel-source.

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > The precompiled VMware modules should be located in: > /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary Of course, they have to be located in /lib/modules/2.2.XX/misc at run time. The VMware installation should normally put them there during the install. Here's what you should see there: (on

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I'd guess (maybe incorrectly) that you are running a newer version of the kernel than 2.2.12, because the latest release of VMWare for Linux (2.02, build 621) has precompiled modules for kernels up to 2.2.15 including 2.2.12. So if you are actually running 2.2.12, then VMware should have just used

Re: Install of VMware

2000-09-21 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:29:12PM -0400, John C. Plummer wrote: > When it asked for the > headers location I gave it /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.12. Make sure this is the kernel you have. The command `uname -r` will tell you which kernel you are using. Make sure this is the headers you have. O