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RE: Debian 3.0 r0 and VM Ware



VMware comes with an install script that will compile the stuff you need, don't
use the rpm.

I use debian exclusively with vmware (except for my openbsd firewalls..).

acs


On 05-Aug-2002 Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> 
> Team:
> 
> I was tossing about the idea of installing VM Ware so I could avoid
> dual-booting
> for the balance of my dis-assimilation from the MSorg . . .
> 
> Debian is not one of "supported" Linux distributions, but I have heard many
> references to it here, so I assume that one can run it anyway . . . 
> 
> Regardless, what are the issues?  Do I grab an RPM and run some kind of RPM
> to .DEB conversion utilitiy?  Do I grab the source and run ./configure or
> make install (from the olden days before packages when Unix sysadmins were
> real sysadmins and understook compiler options better than programmers
> eventhough
> they couldn't read or write a lick of code . . . )?  
> 
> TIA
> 
> madmac   
> 
> -- 
> Doug MacFarlane
> madmac@covad.net
> 
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