Re: pclinuxos in vmware

From: Russ Gray <russcathy@gci.net>
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 18:40:53 AKDT

The X server on the livecd is based on XFree4.4, which has been roundly
condemned as incompatible with the GPL. There may also be software
incompatibility issues, but I know nothing about those.

Russ

On Thursday 27 May 2004 07:27 am, Tim Jordan wrote:
> I'm running short on PC's and would like to put my pclinuxos box into
> vmware. I'm running Debian sarge as my workstation with the latest from
> Vmware. The LiveCD looks like it identifies hardware correctly but the
> X server is misconfigured.
> I cannot trouble shoot the XF86config file because the text is so small
> in shell.
>
> If this could be resolved I think many people could benefit from testing
> and developing pclinuxos.
>
> P.S. - I think there also may be a problem with eth0 coming up. I
> remeber I had to tweak a few netconfig files in mandrake 9 under Vmware.
>
> TJ
>
>
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