Hi gyus... does some one has successfully installed VMWare 3.x under SuSE 7.3 using the Default Kernel that came with 7.3 ? I saw that SuSE came with VMWare 2.03 and it work's fine... but I remove (rpm -e vmware....), Install the VMWare 3.x Workstation (rpm -Uhv vmware...) successfully but when I try to run the vmware-config it start saying that the Kernel doesn't have the necessary modules... ;( Any idea ? Best Regards --ed

Hi Took me ages to get 7.3 going - I had real problems with the touch pad. Do a manual install, as you've found out, and when done, before rebooting, edit /etc.rc.config to replace the PCMCIA system with "kernel" rather than "external." I think you can do this with YaST1 - system administration - change configuration file. Or just do it manually. You can use the installation CD to boot into rescue mode: go for manual installation, then rescue. Then mount your root partition to /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/rc.config with vi You can then boot up with no problem. You will then probably need to sort out usb to get the trackpad to work: you need to replace the default "uhci" module with "usb-uhci." Again, you can do this with YaST1, as above: edit the HOTPLUG_USB_HOSTCONTROLLER_LIST and remove uhci. I put usb-uhci first but I don't know if that's necessary. If I think of anything else, I'll let you know, but so far, that's as far as I've got! Everything works fine, but no sound, so if you get a solution to that, let me know. You can't disable plug and play in the bios (no user access) and I don't know how to get around that. Good luck! David On Friday 30 November 2001 5:21 pm, you wrote:

Hello all -

I am trying to install SuSE 7.3 on a Toshiba 5005-S504. The installation hangs, unless I do a manual install. It seems to halt at a message "searching infofile ...." or something like that. (I'm doing this from memory.)

I finally managed to get through the entire installation process using the manual installation option. However, the system now hangs on the PCMCIA script and I have to shut down and restart the computer.

I have booted into linux using the "linux single" command on the LILO prompt. At that point, if I stop PCMCIA and then attempt to restart it, I get a kernel panic message and the machine locks up again.

I cannot figure out how to disable PCMCIA in the boot script. Booting up with linux single does not allow me to run YAST and the Linux partitions are mounted RO.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how to get me past this roadblock.

Thanks,

Harry