trouble installing linux

[Kerry Hoath]

If running from a live cd you don't have a lot of options but if the vm has 
the OS installed installing the vmware tools into the virtual OS can help a 
lot especially the network driver.

The AMD driver in Linux does work but the vmware specific one works a lot 
better.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Pirika" <arfy at andrelouis.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:41 AM
Subject: trouble installing linux


> hi, I have a strange problem, and wondering if anyone here has any ideas. 
> I want to play with linux, but would like to try it in a vm under windows, 
> to try things out. I have two distros here, arch, and grml. I'm using 
> windows xp pro sp3, and vmWare player 3.01.
>
> Arch loads perfectly fine, speakup comes up, but lately, arch is seeming 
> to have trouble retrieving packages. Protocol and/or timeout errors are 
> the norm here. Even selecting different mirrors doesn't help.
> Grml just refuses to speak, but it does seem to load. as far as i know, 
> I'm giving the boot loader grml swspeakup as it's options. Maybe i need to 
> try a different vm?
> btw, this is grml 2009.10.
>
> tia,
> Arthur.
>
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