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Morning Peter!

Yep. I was trying to install on Fedora Core guest, but am now installing 
Debian again. I don't know if this is going to make things any easier yet.

I found this write up:

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/howto/fedora-core-6-vmware-tools-install.html

At the bottom, it says that "vmhgfs compile" is not fixed and that seems 
to be where I am getting stuck. It would keep saying that the headers 
didnt match and where are they located. Any idea what that means?

Ta,

Ben

P.S. I will call you on Monday. ;)

Peter Church wrote:
> Morning :),
>     are you trying to install the vm tools on your linux guest?
> 
> If so in the past all I did was use su to become root cd into the fake
> mounted CD drive cp the package over to /tmp unzip it and run the
> install sctipt. then reboot the box.. Never needed to stop a Gui
> before... 
> 
> If you realy need to stop the gui, type who -rb if you see the system
> runlevel set to 5 type init 3  
> 
> That should take you to a login prompt no gui running :)
> 
> Although If you are wanting to play with a new linux package go Ubuntu
> 6.10 I am amazed how much better than fedora it is :) My wireless card
> just worked from install !! and I am sad to say that synaptic package
> management make rpm  look like a pile and the install took about 10
> minutes start to finish :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 09:17 +0000, Ben Butterfield wrote:
>> Morning guys and girls,
>>
>> I have Fedora Core 6 running on VMWare and am trying to install VMWare 
>> Tools. In order to do so, I need to shut down the X server. On Debian, I 
>> would normally do something like.....
>>
>> /etc/init.d/kdm stop
>>
>> But there is no kdm or anything that resembles it in /etc/init.d
>>
>> Anyone know the command to stop it?
>>
>> Ta,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
> 
>