installing vmware toolbox w/no floppy?

m34d0w wesr at mchsi.com
Wed Apr 16 13:28:13 PDT 2003


m34d0w wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> First off, I do not have a floppy drive installed. I'm on 4.8, running 
> vmware2 (ports) and currently trying to install the toolbox. I first 
> started by installing: emulators/vmware-tools2, and that installs fine, 
> but tells me that i need to install emulators/linux-vmware-toolbox. This 
> is where i get stuck. I try installing it, and it tries mounting 
> /dev/fd0 in which i don't have. I've tried setting up my floppy drive in 
> vmware as a file pointing to 
> /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/floppies/linux.flp. I boot up win2k and it 
> tells says "Please select Settings > Cancel VMware Tools Install and 
> press Reset. (I'm assuming nothing went right...) I do this, and it asks 
> me to do it again. So, what I'm wondering is, when do i install the 
> linux-vmware-toolbox?
> 
> Hope that made some sense...
> Good Day
> 
> 
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please disregard this message. i've figure it out. thanks.




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