VMWare problems/help thread

[Shadowtester]

Sounds like your problem might be with the nofred folding disk setup which I never used I just used vmware player after I made a custom appliance using the website I linked to in the other thread to create the appliance. I then just installed Ubuntu 8.04 server edition from the downloaded ISO file and used finstall.

So basic procedure

1 Download free VMware player http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ and install
2 Setup custom VMware appliance to meet your system resources and your requirements you can use this website to do that http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml
3 Download Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit Server edition from this link http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
4 Start the VMware player and setup your appliance you can point the cd drive to the Ubuntu iso so you do not have to burn a disk.
5 Turn On the VMware appliance and install Ubuntu Server edition
6 once you finish the install setup a user and password then login and do the following

 
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install ia32-libs
wget http://ra.vendomar.ee/%7Eivo/finstall
chmod +x finstall
./finstall -smp

Off the top of my head that should get you going I would pre-allocate the disk space for the VMware client with at least 2gb of space and I would set the memory to about 1.5gb so the client will have at least 1 gig of ram to use. To monitor the client you could install and setup samba but I an not up on that since I do not use samba I prefer NFS since I use a all Linux network.