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probono
04-19-2003, 08:52 AM
Some people seem to run Knoppix inside VMware, but I want to do it the other way around. Wouldn't it be great if you could boot Windows from your HD without shutting Knoppix down? I tried to install the free VMware demo from http://vmware-svca.www.conxion.com/software/VMware-workstation-4.0.0-4460.tar.gz and the installation started fine until it wanted to recompile a module using a specific version of GCC. Since I have zero experience with compiling, can anyone help? Perhaps the module can be compiled on a hd-installed Knoppix and then transferred to CD-based Knoppix?

god
04-19-2003, 06:05 PM
bad idea... VMware will replace all the drivers on your hard drive installwith vmware drivers... and they may not get fixed when you next boot into windows.....


however, there is a .deb for vmware out there, and I believe that the vmware compile error you get can be fixed by exporting a gcc,(dont remember the exact command)