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Hello,

 

I tried several time to install mandrake linux 10 on vmware 4.5 but every time I got a windows that looks like that.

 

vmware01.jpg

 

When I type "startx":

1) some lines are tiped by linux

2) the two upper quarters become black

3) it came back on the position on the screen

 

When I change the windows with "alt f2" only the two on top changes. The 2 one on the bottom keep all the time the same.

 

I did it like theinstallation from shookmon with generic flat 800*600.

Any idea what I made wrong?

 

franziose

 

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That could really be, after your post i searched the post of shookmon for the vmwaretools and found the way to install it (I had only read it until step "Install basic Mandrakelinux") because after that it had'nt work anymore. I hope it will works this time.

 

thank you for the idea.

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Ok, it works to install them, but then there is a question which came:

 

Before running vmware tools for the first time you need to configure it by ... the following command "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.p" do you want this program to ... the command for you? [yes]

 

It type yes and then another thing came:

 

Setup is unable to find the [...] (I suppose it's something like Uspcd or uxpd or somthing like that, can't read it correctly:() program on your machine. Please make sure it is installed. Do you want to specify the location of this program by hand? [yes]

 

The "..." is when i can't read a word (I still have the 4 quarters :( )

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Ok... Finally I got it start.

It wasn't easy 'cause I'm a complete noob on linux...

 

I found that page, but it's french and I don't think everybody can speak it.

(http://touv.ouvaton.org/spip/a59-Installer...ware-4.5.2.html)

So here the most important things:

 

When you install linux, don't klickt "yes" when he asks for starting default the grafical frontend.

 

First do this:

% urpmi pciutils

% urpmi kernel-source-2.6

 

Now klick in vmware install vmtools then linux do that:

 

% mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

% cp /mnt/vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz /tmp

% umount /dev/cdrom

 

now modify  /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

 

change XFree86 Version (\d+\.\d+\.?\d*)/ ? $1: '0.0.0';

to XFree86 Version (\d+\.\d+\.?\d*)/ ? $1: '4.3.0';

 

change lilo.conf to

 

image=/boot/vmlinuz

       label="linux"

       root=/dev/sda1

       initrd=/boot/initrd.img

       vga=normal

       append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/sda5 acpi=on"

       read-only

 

and finally do this

 

cd vmware-tools-distrib

./vmware-install.pl

 

accept all the default things until you have to chose your grafic resolution

 

and now type "startx"

 

hope it helped.

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