VMware & Debian

Installation problems seeting up debian via VMware on XP

[crash75uk]

I'm trying to setup Debian in Vmware on an XP host and am having a few problems. The main one is during the install of the VMWare tools i'm getting stuck when it request the location of the C header. I've tried everything i can find on the web but have resorted to downloading the kernal headers to install.

The problem i'm now having is trying to get them onto the guest OS Debian from XP. I've spent a while playing with ftp but cannot get a connection.

Any idea's as i'm pretty stuck!

Crash

[martin]

Why do you even want to install VMWare tools, it sucks. Just use the plain default. As far as transfering files is concerned I think VMWare has samba and you can use it for sharing files.

[MattyMoose]

Is you Debian VM able to pick up an IP address?

type at a command prompt:

ifconfig -a

If so, have you enabled ftp? I'm not sure if Debian uses inetd or xinetd, but for xinetd, you have to uncomment a line in /etc/inetd.conf

It should look like this:

#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l

remove the "#" at the beginning of the line, and type in the following at a command prompt:

# killall -HUP inetd

After that, you should be able to login as a normal user (*NOT* root!) through FTP to the IP address of your Debian VM.

Also, Samba should be available. Look and see if you have samba installed. If it is, you should look into creating a share that you can access. It's pretty straight forward. I can send you a really simple config if you need it.

-MM

[crash75uk]

I managed to get around the problem by putting the file in a iso image and then mounting it as a cd. Cheers for the help anyway