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That's a bit weird :) I installed a fedora 6 guest a few weeks ago and
all was fine... Although I had to install the kernel headers as an extra
package as I did not include them in the main install. 

If you have them, your headers will normally be in /usr/src/ under the
kernel version you are running. I have seen issues in the past where the
software is compiled against older headers and won't work with a
different set. 

It all gets a bit our side my patients at those sorts of times :)

I would check that you have the headers installed then if you do, then
I'd get an exact copy of some of the messages and try google :) I doubt
you will be the first to find a bug :)





On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 10:22 +0000, Ben Butterfield wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
>