How to use VMware in multisession Puppy? (Solved)
Posted: Tue 31 Dec 2019, 04:43
I recently bought an old Mercedes ML, and have dowloaded the detailed workshop manuals and parts lists for the car, 3 zipped files totalling 27.4 Gb, which after unzipping grew to a whopping 48 Gb! The files are intended to run in a VMware virtual machine. I use a 64-bit Tahr 6.0.6, with the .iso loaded from a CD (the PC won't read from USB). I downloaded VMware 12.5.9 64-bit, which is the correct one for Tahr, and ran the install script.
The first message during installation was the one shown below, about start and stop scripts missing in /etc/rc.d. What is the recipe for those scripts?
The next was a request for GCC 4.8.4 compiler. I have the devx .sfs for Tahr, but cannot load it because of the installation of the Tahr .iso from a CD, so I downloaded it with the PPM instead. I am not sure if it will work.
Next request from VMware was for the 3.14.79 kernel headers. And that is where everything stop: 1) Are these headers available somewhere? 2) There are bug reports on that kernel, could that be a reason for not finding the headers?
I cannot switch to a new kernel, because the loading of the Tahr .iso from a CD sets pupmode 77.
I have done a lot of modifications and downloads after loading the Tahr from the CD, and the size of those mods would have prevented me from saving the session back to the CD, but the multisession save function in this Tahr doesn't work anyway, so I'm screwed!
Possible solutions:
Convert the Cd-based Tahr to a frugal install, is that possible whitout losing all modifications I have made? I have no previous experience with frugal installs.
Continue to load necessary programs to compile the VMware, will that work?
Any suggestions on what to do?
The first message during installation was the one shown below, about start and stop scripts missing in /etc/rc.d. What is the recipe for those scripts?
The next was a request for GCC 4.8.4 compiler. I have the devx .sfs for Tahr, but cannot load it because of the installation of the Tahr .iso from a CD, so I downloaded it with the PPM instead. I am not sure if it will work.
Next request from VMware was for the 3.14.79 kernel headers. And that is where everything stop: 1) Are these headers available somewhere? 2) There are bug reports on that kernel, could that be a reason for not finding the headers?
I cannot switch to a new kernel, because the loading of the Tahr .iso from a CD sets pupmode 77.
I have done a lot of modifications and downloads after loading the Tahr from the CD, and the size of those mods would have prevented me from saving the session back to the CD, but the multisession save function in this Tahr doesn't work anyway, so I'm screwed!
Possible solutions:
Convert the Cd-based Tahr to a frugal install, is that possible whitout losing all modifications I have made? I have no previous experience with frugal installs.
Continue to load necessary programs to compile the VMware, will that work?
Any suggestions on what to do?