well what can i say
? thank you very much
it finally worked.. it required a lot of patience but it worked
the
Code:
<*> Intel PATA old PIIX support
was blank so i included it but i don't think it mattered..
however pcnet32 was modular and was not included in the modules file, so i just put a star (*) instead of the (M) infront of it and followed the manual configuration of the kernel and the system booted flawlessly it just said that it failed to do something and fell to automatic detection of something but otherwise the system works fine.
after that i tried installing vmware tools..and voila it also got installed
first i did:
Code:
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/generated/utsrelease.h /usr/src/linux/include/linux/utsrelease.h
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/generated/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h
and both links got created except i was unabled to see where they were created..
then it detected by itself where gcc was and the kernel image headers..and everything else, however finally it finished with the following message:
Code:
srvmon-esx vmware-tools-distrib # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
Checking acpi hot plug done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration: done
Paravirtual SCSI module: failed
Guest memory manager: failed
VM communication interface: failed
VM communication interface socket family: failed
File system sync driver: done
Guest operating system daemon: done
4 of the operations failed.
next i added vmware to runlevel default
Code:
rc-update add vmware-tools default
after reboot, however, vmware did not start automatically for some reason and when i started it manually
i got:
Code:
srvmon-esx ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
Checking acpi hot plug done
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration: done
Paravirtual SCSI module: failed
Guest memory manager: failed
VM communication interface: failed
VM communication interface socket family: failed
File system sync driver: done
Guest operating system daemon: done
but i didn't understand what has failed and why didn't it start by itself after boot, any ideas? and thank you again for your help