Re: Vmplayer and the Nevaeh package

Allrighty then!.... I'm feeling a little sheepish right now.

Besides, those that don't know, now have that much more information.

Mike B.

Quoting Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>:

> Seriously.. heh.. I was just hinting at naming it correctly :) a bz2
> isn't always a tar.bz2. It was pretty instictive to assume there was
> a TAR in there, shore nuff 'file' told me it was a tar before I
> extracted it. Anyways, my messages are often mis-percieved :)
>
> On 1/31/07, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Shane, this should have unpacked the files into a directory structure
>> that you would then point vmplayer at the virtual machine config file.
>> Something like:
>>
>> vmplayer <directory>/<vm config file>
>>
>> of course substituting the directory and the name of the config file
>> respectively.
>>
>> These steps worked for me (it took about 45 minutes to download):
>> (from my home directory)
>>
>> # its about 180 MB
>> wget ftp.aklug.org:vmplayer-nevaeh.bz2
>>
>> # unzips to about a gig (as Jon already said)
>> tar jxvf vmplayer-nevaeh.bz2 # When it asks, you will want to choose
>> 'Create' to create a new ID
>> vmplayer BaseHalloween/Base-Halloween.vmx
>>
>>
>> The default config will start and the root password for that image is:
>>
>> usethesource.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
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Received on Wed Jan 31 17:09:38 2007