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Hello all,
I am pretty new to Debian, used SuSE and RedHat for
the last year or so.
I still use xp on my laptop becuase the ACPI works
without a lot of hassle. I run several Linux installs under VMware workstation
4.5.1 and there is a tools package that improves the graphics and mouse
movement.
Anyway it requires the kernel sources so it can
compile a kernel modue for this purpose. On my testing install i did a "apt-get
install kernel-sources-2.4.25" which matches the output of "uname -r" and on
other distributions i would then have a /usr/src/linux-2.4.25 directory which
would have all the kernel sources necessary to compile the necessary kernel
module. But i just have a bziped tarball in the /usr/src/ directory. Is this
normal? Doesn't the apt-get install both GET and INSTALL the package? Becuase
that doesn't seem to be the case, can someone explain a little more about what
is exected of me to make it work?
I uncompressed and untarred it and pointed the
vmware tools install script to it but it barked about not finding the net or
linux directory and failed.
THanks
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