Thanks,
One problem I solved by simply using su and then
starting vmware which gives me access to the
partitions.
I have tried pointing to the grub partition. Now grub
loads fine and i can choose windows from there,
however shortly afterwards windows gives and error
message and reboots. I can't figure out what it says
but its a screen of stuff that disappears right away.
Does Windows save it somewhere? And could you boot up
the first time or is this the part where somehow I
have to play with the drivers?
thanks, james.
--- Ron Joffe
Hmm,
I think when I did it I pointed to the partition where I had the boot manager (In my case it was lilo). Then when it booted up I had to always manually choose winders from the boot options.
I do remember having to do it as root though.
Ron
Hi,
Well I'm afraid you'll need to give me a bit more guidance on how you did it. Because I've tried
idea before and it didn't work. Basically here is what I did:
1. tried the custom setup for the vm. the problem is that when you choose /dev/hda and you try to select partitions it tells you permission denied. so i
#2 ..
2. logged in again as root and tried vmware now.
time it gave me access to /dev/hda and i could choose the xp native partition. however at boot nothing happened.(vm just died).
so i'm not sure what the trick is here...
thanks a lot, james.
--- Ron Joffe
wrote: Well basically VMWare can have two types of file systems real file partitions, and file based file systems. Your windows
is a real file partition. Create a new VMWare machine, and just point the real disk at the partition which has winders (i.e. /dev/hda1).
That should be it. However as I stated earlier you will have some issues with drivers, but nothing that can not be overcome.
Ron
On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:18 pm, you wrote:
Now I'm intrigued ... how can you do this?? Please tell!!
james.
--- Ron Joffe
wrote: Well,
You do have another option. I'm not sure if it
fits,
but I used to do something similar. I used to run a system with
two
partitions, one winders, and the other linux.
Then when I discovered VMWare, I used VMWare to
boot
the windows partition (existing one) when I was running Linux. It took
a
bit of configuration to get the winders partition to accept all of
VMWare components, but after that was done, it worked great.
The only downside was that if you have to boot
up
the windows side (directly, not from VMWare) then all of your device drivers will be messed up.
Ron
On Saturday 02 August 2003 06:09 pm, you wrote:
Thanks for confirming what I sort of
suspected.
You're
almost right about my thinking. I'm running a
dual
boot with XP/suse which works fine and I want
to
keep
it like that. I just need to install a windows
system
in vmware as well (frankly any windows would
do).
I only have the recovery cd's for XP - if I'd
have
any
other windows cd's I'd just use those.
so i guess i'm stuck, right?
thanks, james.
I only
--- Ron Joffe
wrote: > James, > > I believe that your problem is in the choice of
> media you are using to install > XP. > > If you are trying to utilize the XP recovery
disk
> which came with the laptop, > I doubt it will work. The main reason being
that
the
> recovery disk is > assuming that it is trying to install
On Sunday 03 August 2003 12:57 am, you wrote: this tried this partition the the
software
> on a Toshiba laptop > (whatever model it was intended for). > > The recovery disk is looking for
specific
hardware,
> such as disk, CPU, etc. > This prevents the recovery disk from
being
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