Monday, 8 June 2009

vmware-tools on slackware 12.1

Okay, here is a list of steps that install vmware-tools on Slackware 12.1
You need to install PAM before proceding the instruction, get PAM from LinuxPackages.net & install it
(http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_view.php?by=name&name=pam&ver=12.1)

After that, do:

1.cd /etc/rc.d

2.for V in {0,1,2,3,4,5,6}; do ln -s /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/rc${V}.d; done

3.mkdir /etc/pam.d

4.cp /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 /etc/init.d/network

5.cp /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 /etc/init.d/networking

6.In VMWARE, select Settings => Install Vmware Tools

7.$mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

8.cp /mnt/cdrom/vmware*.tar.gz /tmp

9.cd /tmp

10.tar zxf vmware*.tar.gz

11.goto the extracted folder and $./vmware-install.pl

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