Brendan O'Kane on Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:23:45 -0400 (EDT)


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[PLUG] Fwd: VMWARE & Kernel headers...


A while back, I posted a question to the list about having problems using  VMWare alongside Mandrake 7.1. Here's the response that I got yesterday, for those of you who care to know:

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:13:49 -0500, Joe Baker wrote:
>Brendan,
>
>When Lilo or GRUB boots your system,
>instruct it to use the "linux-up" selection.
>This worked for me.  I suspect that in this mode, much of Mandrake's
>security
>level checks are not operational, but I don't know that for sure.
>
>If you use lilo for your boot manager, you can edit /etc/lilo.conf
>...
>There's a line in there that reads
>
>default=linux
>
>change it to
>default=linux-up
>
>Make sure there is a line in the file which reads
>label=linux-up
>
>Save your changes
>
>run the command
>
>lilo
>
>(This will save your changes...)
>
>I hope this helps..
>
>However this is a temporary fix... I would plan on re-compiling the
>kernel
>to your liking, but I plan on re-compiling my kernel on a virtual
>machine
>so that I have the luxury of not committing the changes :)
>
>Please post this message back to the mailing list that you posted
>your
>message
>to as I don't see how to reply to it, and I'd like others to have the
>benefit of
>reading this response...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Joe Baker
>Digital Communications Research, Inc.
>414-427-6140
>
>
>Brendan O'Kane wrote......
>    Hi all.
>
>    I was wondering if anyone here has any experience in getting VMware
>to
>    run on Mandrake version 7.1; when I try to install it, it complains
>that
>    my /usr/src/linux directory is for kernel 2.2.15-4mdk, while my
>running
>    kernel is 2.2.15-4mdksecure. Is there any way (short of a kernel
>    recompile) that I can get this to work?
>
>    Sorry if this is a dumb question; I'm sub-newbie when it comes to
>    Linux...
>
>    Thanks,
>
>    Brendan O'Kane
>
>
>
>
>--
>-Joe Baker
> Digital Communications Research, Inc.
> www.dcresearch.com
> www.bigfoot.com/~joebaker
> 414-427-6140


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