[ltp] vmware 1.1, tp 770ED

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Hi,

I had a similar problem on my box (770X, SuSE6.2 and VMWare 1.1).

It solved after changing the boot-settings in the BIOS of the VMWare.
Set the floppy-disk (removable device) as second or third boot-device and 
the hard-disk as first.

I think it tried to boot from floppy and after an io-timeout it went to the 
next possible boot-device.

zlatko


PS: please ignore the attached message about security and so. This is 
automatically generated by the mailsystem i am using.



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Subject: [ltp] vmware 1.1, tp 770ED
Author:  jwz (jwz@jwz.org) at unix,mime
Date:    28.10.99 21:02


Anyone gotten it working?

I installed it from RPM, and it almost works, but not well enough...

I'm trying to get vmware to run Win95 off of my existing windows
partition.  I set up a separate hardware profile as per the
instructions.  There are a couple of problems: first, it takes a
full ten minutes to boot Windows -- the BIOS banner shows up right
away, then the window goes black for 5 full minutes, with just an
underline cursor in the upper left.  Then finally I get my Lilo
prompt, and can launch windows -- which takes another 5 minutes.

After it's up, it seems reasonably fast, so it's just something
goofy going on at startup.

Once Windows is running, I can't figure out how to get it to talk
to my serial port or network.

Also, since I installed vmware, I've been getting an endless stream
of these messages:

     Oct 28 10:33:04 grendel sendmail[29990]:
     gethostbyaddr(192.168.110.1) failed: 1

I assume that's the "unused" subnet that vmware is trying to use to
let Windows talk to the network; but why is sendmail touching it at all,
and how do I make it stop?

This is on RH 5.2 (2.0.36.)

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