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terça-feira, novembro 28, 2006

Freesco running at a VMware-Player

VMware is remarkably easy to use. I have recently created a Freesco-box machine. For those who know Freesco, it fits in a floppy as a first installation. Usually Freesco users move installation to the hard-disk -- in a simple configuration step.
In this article I show it is possible to run Freesco in a VMware machine, by using VMware-Player on a Windowzed PC.

It's quite interesting for those who test Freesco.

My initial problem was: how to have the ethernet cards working on a such old Kernel (Freesco uses a 2.0.39 or eventually 2.0.40). The bogus was I wasn't insmod'ing the PCI modules correctly. The default v0.3.2 stock Kernel and modules worked on the first shot (see also an excellent Kernel 2.0.39/40 compilation How-to by Dingetje).