Re: I want to migrate to Linux

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:03:47 +0000, pcbldrNinetyEight wrote:

General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:KfSdnWjOJqpXg1vanZ2dnUVZ_qrinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:

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.

I'm ready to buy distros and dive in head first. Thanks for your
patience and help. Where do I send the check? (just kidding) You really
do deserve high praise.

Make sure that you buy the full install DVDs not just the Live CDs.
Ubuntu is typically installed from the Live CD and it's possible to do
that with Fedora 8 also. However those installs are minimal systems and
they are typically pretty useless until you've downloaded and installed
the remaining applications that you'll need. For people with broadband
this is a nice way to do it but you are on dialup so the Live CD approach
is undoable for you.

One more thing about VMware, the installer assumes a 2.6.18 kernel which
is what you will find in CentOS 5.1. For all of the other distros that
you are looking at you will have to patch the installer. You get the
patch from,

http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz

With Ubuntu it possible that you will find VMware and VirtualBox (another
VM that works pretty well) in a repository which would be simpler for you
than using the VMware installer which must be done from a command line.
.

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