- Downloaded sourceforge enterprise package. It's a vmware image so I need to install the included vmware player first
VMware
- vmware chokes on the install script here :
root@Alex:/hd2/sourceforge/VMwarePlayer/Linux/vmware-player-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 3).
Keeping the tar3 installer database format.
Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Player.
The removal of VMware Player 1.0.3 build-34682 for Linux completed
successfully. Thank you for having tried this software.
Installing the content of the package.
In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]
What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/)? /etc/rc.d/
The path "/etc/rc.d" is a directory which does not contain a rc0.d directory.
What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/)?
[3]+ Stopped ./vmware-install.pl
- found a thread here that suggests making these init directories and transferring the files into the rc.d directories afterwards.
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc0.d
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc1.d
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc2.d
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc3.d
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc4.d
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc5.d
root@Alex:/etc/rc.d# mkdir rc6.d
Installing the content of the package.
In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin]
What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc/rc.d]
What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/rc.d]
In which directory do you want to install the library files?
[/usr/lib/vmware]
The path "/usr/lib/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is going to
create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]
In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?
[/usr/share/doc/vmware]
The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]
The installation of VMware Player 1.0.3 build-34682 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl".
Before running VMware Player for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this
program to invoke the command for you now? [yes] no
Enjoy,
--the VMware team
- ran the config scripts, important bits below
Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [yes]
Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.
Your computer has multiple ethernet network interfaces available: eth0, eth1.
Which one do you want to bridge to vmnet0? [eth0]
The following bridged networks have been defined:
. vmnet0 is bridged to eth0
Also this somewhat odd install question ;
Would you like to enable the Google searchbar? (yes/no) [no]
Sourceforge
X11ed into alex and started vmware, loaded the sourceforge image and ran through the automated install. Gave it a static IP of 10.1.2.231 (I'll get the IP reserved and a dns redirect later) and booted it up. Setting up the project and users and such was incredibly straightforward. I've added a user jim with the password changeme with the email address foo@bar.org for the process of setting everything up. just point a web browser at 10.1.2.231 and you should be able to access the sourceforge site.
also, turns out I don't need to do any kind of futzing with the /etc/rc.d/ directories because slackware has a neat little script to recognize and run the startup and shutdown scripts in that directory. sweet huh?
Note
server may be intermittently down while I get some kinks worked out.
