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cryptic1

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Hi guys

So I've installed Fedora 7 on VMware 6, bridged the ethernet connection between host & guest and I still can't connect to the internet in Fedora. I'm using Vista as the host.

Please help :)
 
How is the host machine connecting to the internet? There has to be an Ethernet connection present for bridged networking to work.
 
Different strokes for different folks, but I'd put Vista in the VM and run that under Linux :D
 
cryptic1 said:
Hi guys

So I've installed Fedora 7 on VMware 6, bridged the ethernet connection between host & guest and I still can't connect to the internet in Fedora. I'm using Vista as the host.

Please help :)
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I suspect the problem was that there is no DHCP server running to assign an internal LAN IP address to your Fedora VMware NIC using Bridged, whereas both NAT and Host Only do run DHCP servers for those subnets.
 
When you select the option to install VMware tools from the main menu, it should automatically mount it to your CD drive?
 
Highflyer_GP said:
When you select the option to install VMware tools from the main menu, it should automatically mount it to your CD drive?
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I've tried that, I'm very new to linux (I removed Fedora and installed Kubuntu) - here goes :

A disk appears on the desktop and when i click on it, it opens a folder and there are two applications there. When I try to open them another app opens and asks which application I want to use to open them :confused: And then there's a whole lot of programs like 'adept manager' I think which confuses me even more.

I'm a windows fan but I really want to learn linux :)
 
cryptic1 said:
I've tried that, I'm very new to linux (I removed Fedora and installed Kubuntu) - here goes :

A disk appears on the desktop and when i click on it, it opens a folder and there are two applications there. When I try to open them another app opens and asks which application I want to use to open them :confused: And then there's a whole lot of programs like 'adept manager' I think which confuses me even more.

I'm a windows fan but I really want to learn linux :)
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tar.gz method [that I normally use with Ubuntu]:
  1. Ensure that the Ubuntu virtual machine is running and a user is logged in
  2. Ensure that the "build-essential" package is installed via Synaptic|Kynaptic
  3. From the VMware menu, select "Install VMware Tools"
  4. If necessary mount the CD|DVD drive inside the virtual machine, e.g. by right clicking on the desktop icon for the volume and selecting Mount
  5. Open a terminal window, and use the following commands:
    Code: 
    sudo su -
cd /tmp
cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz ./
tar zxvpf VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
 
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ic said:
tar.gz method [that I normally use with Ubuntu]:
  1. Ensure that the Ubuntu virtual machine is running and a user is logged in
  2. From the VMware menu, select "Install VMware Tools"
  3. If necessary mount the CD|DVD drive inside the virtual machine, e.g. by right clicking on the desktop icon for the volume and selecting Mount
  4. Open a terminal window, and use the following commands:
    Code: 
    sudo su -
cd /tmp
cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz ./
tar zxvpf VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
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Thank u ic :) gonna try it
 
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