Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:14:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Emulation) Subject: Help, PLEASE, with VMWare setup (2nd try) Message-ID: <200006231214.FAA17632@netcom.com>
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I am reinstalling FreeeBSD on my HP Omnibootk 7100 laptop. It's a multiboot machine, and i am doing this to gain more space for FreebSD, and also using this oportunity to move up to FreebS 4.0 STABLE. The machine has an 8G disk which I have repartioned as follows: slice 1 NT 4.0 slice 2 DOS (yes really) slice 3 FreeBSD 4.0 The FreebSD bootloader is loaded inot the first 64 bolcks (or is that 63), and the NT boot loader lives on slice 2. It just sort of happende that way. So the FreeBSD bootloader presents thes choices when the machine is brought up. F1 DOS F2 DOS F3 FreeBSD Chooosing F1 is dead end, choosing F2 takes you to the NT bootloader which presnet NT and DOS as choices. All this works. I am tired of rebooting to use the few NT/FOS apps that I need to run. I would like to use VMWARE, but I have not been able to make it work, yet. Here is what i have done: 1. Built the VMWare 2 port. 2. Grabed, built, and insatlled the linuxprocfs port mentioned by this port. 3. Aquired a demo key, and installed it (no sense in spending money if I can't make this work). 4. Ran the VMWare install wizzard and set up two environments. a. virtual 200M disk fo DOS b raw disk for DOS using hte entire disk. here is what happens when I try to run these: a. Place DOS install disk in floppy drive. Start VMWare. Result 90+ percent use of CPU cycles for 15_ minutes, then I bailed out. b. Imediate core dump. The machine is a PII 266MHZ, with 96M of memory. I have cvsuped the latest REL_ENG4 on Wednesday of this week, alos the ports tree. I must be doing somehting wrong, pepolpe do have this working, right? I have read the VMWare docs and I don;t see what I am doing rong. Could any kind souls make any sugestions as to what to try> Is the a doc on making this work on FreeBSD? Any help, at all, will be appreciated. Thanks. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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