breen
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Joined: July 2006 |
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Posted: July 27 2006,12:50 |
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Hello DSLers,
my main reason for checkin out DSL is to use the web with an emulated machine (under an XP-Host). So first of all I must admit that my headline is not the whole truth- after numerous attempts I got only one way to reach my aim: Emulate a minimal Machine with VMWare, keep away from any kind of installation and always boot from CD. Not my original idea of virtualization (although it works...).
Second best is the embedded version of DSL. This seems to work fine- with the exception of the web access. It's not possible to establish a dial-up-connection to my provider via the broadband modem (no further networking, no router, just a simple modem on the ethernet wire). PppoeConf is not able to locate an access concetrator and quits. Manual attempt with pppoe -A fails. While this is no prob with the non-embedded DSL the malfunction may be due to Qemu. Next level of probs.
I'm not afraid of customizing myself- as long as I have an idea where to look at- so here the questions:
Is it possible to reach some kind of main menue of Qemu somehow?
Or the (Qemu-)command line at least?
Which is the config-file responsible for this and what changes have do be done?
While that way didn't help me out momentarily I thought I could try it with VMWare- and this turned out to be a real trial-version ;-)
Whatever I try to install DSL (frugal or debian-like) it always ends up with an impossible reboot. Either the installer promises to format the root partition and decides to quit after that or it seems to do his work but VMWare isn't able to boot after all. In some cases it complains about missing Bootstrap-Information in the MBR, mostly it just exits at the prompt.
Looks like cfdisk or mkfs does strange things to the virtual mbr (or completely fail to create it). And I have to ask again for a hint how to deal with this.
Hope somebody's got one...
Greets
breen
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