Re: I want to migrate to Linux


When you install an OS in VMware it sees virtual devices not the actual
devices in the machine. These devices are either so generic that you
don't need drivers or they use the drivers that are included in VMware.
These drivers are called VMware Tools. After you do the OS install and
you have booted into the OS the graphics will be running VGA mode just
like they would be if you had installed the OS on real hardware and you
hadn't installed the graphics driver. There is a menu item called Install
VMware tools, when you select that Windows will think you have mounted a
driver disk. You run the installer for VMware Tools and it will install
all of the drivers that you need. After you've installed VMware tools and
done a reboot you will have full functionality. You will not need any
drivers for the real hardware, just for VMware.

Networking is configured after you have done the install not before. You
follow the same steps you would on real hardware,

1) Install OS
2) Install drivers (i.e. install VMware Tools), reboot
3) Setup networking in Win98. You can use static IPs or you can use DHCP.
Linux has a DHCP server included, you don't need a router.

SAMBA allows Linux to share folders with Windows. At it simplest it's
like turning on sharing in Windows. SAMBA does a lot more than this also,
it can do everything that Windows Server can do. However all you need is
the base functionality. You would use SAMBA to share Linux directories,
you would mount them in Windows in exactly the same manner as if you had
shared them from another Win98 machine.

The browser interface is for Webmin. Think of it as a super Control Panel
where all of the control panels are in a browser window. You don't need
to use Webmin, I was just suggesting it because I think it's easier and
more powerful than the administration tools that Ubuntu provides. Ubuntu
provides a very Windows like control panel. I hate it because it's so
much like Windows, but you will probably be comfortable with it.


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