Brain no longer functioning.....

[squishyalt]

Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the boxing career....I dunno. But, I am having what seems to be a newbie problem that I just can't figure out.

I wanted a clean install of BT3, so I downloaded the vmware image and went from there.

I updated fast-track, then updated all under the fast-track menu. I then upgraded the vm from the vmware menu to 6 because I could not install the vmware tools (it just showed a blank image and no tools to install).

That didn't help either. When I try and install vmware's tools, BT3 opens a file explorer that shows nothing.

I have searched the forums and cannot seem to find an answer to this seemingly simple task.

Damn I feel stupid.....

[ShadowKill]

Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the boxing career....I dunno. But, I am having what seems to be a newbie problem that I just can't figure out.

I wanted a clean install of BT3, so I downloaded the vmware image and went from there.

I updated fast-track, then updated all under the fast-track menu. I then upgraded the vm from the vmware menu to 6 because I could not install the vmware tools (it just showed a blank image and no tools to install).

That didn't help either. When I try and install vmware's tools, BT3 opens a file explorer that shows nothing.

I have searched the forums and cannot seem to find an answer to this seemingly simple task.

Damn I feel stupid.....

How, exactly, are you trying to install them?

[squishyalt]

How, exactly, are you trying to install them?

I open the VM (log in as root/toor and start the KDE environment by entering startx) then I pres ctrl+alt to exit the vm and click on VM then on "Install VMware Tools".

A window opens in the bt3 vm, but nothing is in it....

[imported_cybrsnpr]

I think you have to manually mount the tools:

mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom (or where ever the cdrom mount point is)
cd /mnt/cdrom
cp * /tmp
cd /tmp
umount /mnt/cdrom

(that is if memory serves correctly)

[squishyalt]

Its showing a mount error now.

I have uploaded a flash video to http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b...17756147830e53. Maybe this will make things more clear.

[imported_cybrsnpr]

try mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom instead of mount -t iso9660

[squishyalt]

try mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom instead of mount -t iso9660

I got back "mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist".

I also upgraded vmware to 6.5 - to no avail.

And, I chose my real DVD/CD as the CD drive instead of Auto in VMware - also to no avail.

[squishyalt]

Does this mean anything?

bt ~ # cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

[ShadowKill]

I got back "mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist".
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Have you tried manually creating the mount point? ie try:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

[squishyalt]

Have you tried manually creating the mount point? ie try:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

God bless your little pointed head! It worked!