On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 08:49, Ron Joffe wrote:
There are no instructions with the any-any update patch, but basically all I did was (not sure if all steps are truly necessary, but...):
1. Install the new kernel and kernel sources. 2. Using YaST, disable vmware services 3. Reboot.
There is no need to reboot or disable the vmware services in YaST. Simply use /etc/init.d/vmware stop to shutdown vmware and install the any-any patch using steps 1, 4(a,b,c), 5, 6 (a,b,c), 7 and 9.
4. As root, run: 4a. cd /usr/src/linux 4b. make cloneconfig 4c. make dep && make clean 5. Unpack the vmware-any-any-update51.tar.gz patch 6. Run as root the runme.pl script from the any-any patch. 6a. Allow the runme.pl script to overwrite the modules. 6b. Ignore any errors. 6c. Allow the runme.pl script to launch vmware-config.pl. 7. Allow vmware-config.pl to build the modules. 8. Re-enable vmware services in YaST 9. Launch VMware.
I have used this procedure installing different kernels and updates to them. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)