Ubuntu in VMWare 4.5 (+ IBM X40 installs)

[Harry Sufehmi]

Tristan Rhodes wrote:
> I have installed Ubuntu on MS Virtual PC 2003.  Everything installed 
> fine, but when X started the screen was unviewable.  I had to open a 
> terminal and "sudo dpgk-reconfigure" the X-free86 package (I forget the 
> exact name).  The problem is caused by the MS Virtual PC graphics driver 
> not supporting 24-bit color.
> Now Ubuntu runs fine all the time.  :)

Well done! Yes, that was the problem I encountered when I installed 
Ubuntu on VirtualPC 2004.

I'll give it another go then.


Thanks!
Harry


> Harry Sufehmi wrote:
>> Chris wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Aroon Pahwa wrote:
>>> Ubuntu works great in VMware.  I think you just need to install the 
>>> kernel headers for whatever kernel you are using.
>>> Look in Synaptic for something like:
>>> linux-headers-<kernel verion>
>>> Which would be "linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3-386" or something like that 
>>> for the default kernel.
>>
>>
>>
>> Most interesting... I tried installing Ubuntu on VirtualPC and VMware 
>> 4.5, both failed.
>>
>> On VMware 4.5 (Windows), it failed on installing the base-package, so 
>> I have no idea how to be able to install that linux-headers-* package 
>> above. Any hint ?
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Harry