So, Which Version is Suitable for Beginners

[Roel Schroeven]

Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 13:29, blah at blah.blah wrote:
> 
>>B) I need it to work on VMware Workstation 5
> 
> 
> Most do.

I installed Ubuntu on VMware Workstation 5 just a few days ago. Works
nicely. There's one small problem: when installing the VMware tools in
Ubuntu, the install program says it doesn't have any precompiled modules
for the running kernel. It's not much of a problem since the installer
can compile the modules itself; you just need to install the necessary
packages in order for it being able to do so (best install them before
running the VMware tools install scripts). The packages you need are:

linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386
gcc-3.4
make

Then either set the environment variable CC to /usr/bin/gcc-3.4 or wait
until the vmware tools installer asks for the location of the compiler
and enter /usr/bin/gcc-3.4. For the other questions it asks you can just
use the default IIRC.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven