Help w/Stage3

aiki985 · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Posts: 10

Hi,

I'm setting up Gentoo on a PC with VMWare. Using VMWare I've set up my partitions, and everything is going ok. I'm now at the point where I have to download the Stage3 tar file. I have already downloaded it and it is saved on my desktop (outside of VMWare). My question is, how do I move it from the desktop to my newly created gentoo folder inside VMWare?

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Luis

jfp · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject:

The easiest way is to use the system rescue cd to boot the virtual machine and install using system rescue. The system rescue cd can bring up a nice graphical interface where you can use firefox to download the stage3. Then it is basically just a matter for following the installation handbook.

I don't know if NFS is available to you in the virtual machine. If it were, I suppose you could set up a NFS share on the host and mount it in the virtual machine. The alternatives are (possibly) usb stick or CD. Again, I am not sure if whatever it is you are using to install the VM will work with the usb or CD.
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gregool · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 336 Location: Lille

hi,

did you already install vmware tools?

with this tools you'll be able to build a shared folder between your host system & guest system, that's very usefull.

in vmware interface u go to Settings > Options and click Shared folders.

that should do the trick.

aiki985 · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Posts: 10

Hi,

Thanks, I'm going to try installing the VMWare tools and see if that works for me.

Thanks for the suggestions...

Luis

jfp · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject:

With kernel 2.6.27 (possibly) and kernel 2.6.28 (definitely) you will need to use open-vm-tools-0.0.20090121.142982 in order to get around a compile error.
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