starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> On September 28, 2007 03:32:55 pm Chris Aitken wrote:
>>  
>>> Ian Petersen wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On 9/28/07, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> [root at p733 chris]# ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/
>>>>> total 1556
>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     45 2007-09-13 07:49 build ->
>>>>> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686
>>>>>         
>>>> You could try again, and this time provide
>>>>
>>>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686/include
>>>>
>>>> as the answer to
>>>>
>>>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match 
>>>> your
>>>> running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>>>>       
>>> Okay, I tried that...
>>>
>>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>>> running
>>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686/include
>>>
>>> The path "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.5-76.fc7-i686/include" is not an 
>>> existing
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> Then I used the File Brwoser to see if this directory exists. It
>>> doesn't. So I changed the path to reflect what is actually there...
>>>
>>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>>> running
>>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.22.7-85.fc7-i686/include
>>>
>>> The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.22.7-85.fc7) does not 
>>> match
>>> your
>>> running kernel (version 2.6.22.5-76.fc7).  Even if the module were to
>>> compile
>>> successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.
>>>
>>> So the kernel module doesn't match the running kernel?
>>>     
>>
>> Try http://fedorasolved.org/server-solutions/vmserver-install
>>   
> Okay, I worked through about half of that. I think the last step (9) i 
> did was
>
> su -c 'yum -y install kernel-devel'
>
> I think I then did a cold boot. I ran the vmware-config.pol and this 
> time it was satisfied with the path to the headers. The vmware 
> installation completed successfully.
Aah, now I remember the trouble I had with installing W98SE in vmware - 
it doesn't see my cdrom drive, so I make an image file, it sees that but 
then the installation freezes at the message, "Please wait while Setup 
initializes. Scanning system registry... Windows Setup needs [however 
many] bytes of..."

Has anyone seen this? Or are we getting too far into Windows now for me 
to be asking help here?

Chris

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