Ubuntu in VMWare 4.5 (+ IBM X40 installs)

[Rob Weir]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:00:24PM +0900, Ian MacLean said
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:49:18 +1000, Rob Weir <rweir at ertius.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:16:17AM +0100, Harry Sufehmi said
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Friends of mine have successfully installed warty under vmware 4.5.2
> > (though he did have trouble with earlier ones) and some VPC version
> > (2004?).
> > 
> interesting - I had grub errors post-install with the newer builds but
> the original preview was fine.

This was...two weeks ago or so.

-rob

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