February 05, 2003
Debian 2.2 under VMware [ Software ]
In my continuing quest to install and play with as many different *nixes on as many different platforms as possible, I've been working on a Debian 2.2 install under VMWare Workstation 3.2 (running on Win2K for work-related reasons). Debian's pretty straightforward, but this is probably the sixth or seventh Debian 2.X install I've done on x86 hardware, so it's all familiar at this point.
One sticky point - if you don't remember to load the 'pcnet32' module during the install, you'll have to do a:
# insmod pcnet32
# ifconfig eth0 [whatever-options-you-normally-throw-at-ifconfig]
to get it up and running after the install. To bring these up automatically at boot, edit /etc/modules to include a line for 'pcnet32' and edit /etc/network/interfaces to include a line for eth0, perhaps similar to:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
That will also allow 'ifup' and 'ifdown' to work properly.
Posted by edobbs at February 5, 2003 04:02 PM
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