Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Erik Jakobsen <eja@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

update wrote:
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15963.html
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> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:01 +0100, Janko Mivšek wrote:
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>> Hi Syv,
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>> P4 3.2 (and above) is actually 64bit (internally AFAIK), a x86_64
>> architecture. SuSE installation reminded me about that fact at the
>> start. I also deliberately bought that procesor to test 64bit apps.
>>
>> I alos installed gcc++ but don't find kernel-syms! Is that some rpm
>> package or where can I find it?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> Janko
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>> Syv Ritch wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:07:20 +0100, Janko Mivšek wrote:
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>>>> Dear everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I'm just installing VMware 5.0 on my new P4 machine where I
>>>> installed SuSE 10.0 64bit (kernel 2.6.13-15-smp). After doing
>>>> usuall steps like: install kernel source cd /usr/src/linux
>>>> make clean make cloneconfig make prepare vmware-config.pl
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> P4 is not 64bit, need to use 586 or 686. SMP only if you 
>>> hyperthreads.
>>> You also need to install gcc++ and kernel-syms.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>> syv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> When the network has to work
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The information is fine, but the:

make cloneconfig; make prepare-all

Should first be run after the VMware has been installed.

Erik Jakobsen