Hi Rich,
Thank you very much, this looks like an excellent howto.
This belongs on the wiki, I can paste it in there if you wish, better
still if you do it (as you will get the credit for your work then).
I don't have that windows os here but it would be interesting to try
working pskmail this way, it looks very easy.
73 de Per, sm0rwo
lör 2007-01-13 klockan 20:24 -0600 skrev Rich Hudgins:
> Sure
> To run any .iso image off the hard drive you download the vmware
> player [1] below, and install it. This is a windows application but you
> can run any system on it. At the bottom of the same download page is a
> link to some preconfigured applications that will work and might be of
> interest. To run PSKmail iso disks you need to create a virtual machine
> configuration using either the program VMManager [2] or EasyVMX [3]
> either will create the files you will need to run the virtual machine.
> The most important setting on the player is to suspend operation rather
> than terminate the operation. That way you keep your settings and any
> changes you make. You can run the window in full screen mode or a
> window. You can run this with 256Meg of memory in your computer but I
> highly recommend at least 512 meg.
>
> Step 1
> Make a Directory called PskMail_2007 on the Root [c:\]
> Step 2
> copy Psk .iso disk to that directory and rename [liveCD.iso]
> copy the self extracting file PskMail_2007.exe to that directory
> and execute.
> Step 3
> Install the PKWare player on your computer
> Install the VMManager on your computer
>
> Step 4
> Double click on the file [PskMail_2007.vmx]
> This file is a text file that you can change if you want to or
> you can use VMManager to open and edit it or view it
> Step 5
> After the disk is up and running there are two Problems that may
> come up. The first is the video resolution. On some computers when
> the image runs it will pick a resolution that makes the screen hard to
> see, this can be changed by opening up the mandriva control center
> on the bottom of the screen. The second issue is that sometimes the
> soundcard will not be recognized properly. This can be fixed by
> opening a terminal and going to /usr/sbin and runing [su root
> alsaconf] so far that has corrected the sound card problems on
> every computer I have tried this on and I recommend it.
>
> Have fun and experiment
> Rich Hudgins N5ALE
>
>
>
> 1 Vmware Player [free]
> http://www.vmware.com/download/
> 2 VMManager
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmmanager
> 3 EasyVMX
> http://www.easyvmx.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Per Crusefalk
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:24 PM
> To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pskmail] Re: Updated iso
>
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> Great to hear that its working for you.
> I guess the Vmware solution could be a nice way to start, do you think
> you could describe how to do that in more detail ? I'm thinking perhaps
> we should have that on the wiki ?
>
> 73 de Per, sm0rwo
>
> lör 2007-01-13 klockan 15:54 -0600 skrev Rich Hudgins:
> > To all
> >
> > The new disk.iso works pretty well. I am testing my server back to
> > back with my laptop, and it works pretty well. Tomorrow I may put the
>
> > server on the air and see if it can be heard. The real intresting
> > thing is that I have been running the new .iso disk on a windows
> > laptop as a virutal machine and it works very well like that. Im
> > using Vmware player [its free] and the iso image run from the hard
> > drive. This may be a way to open this program and other Linux apps to
>
> > some of those folks afraid to try linux. If anyone is intrested I can
>
> > zip the configuration files and email them to you.
> >
> > Rich Hudgins
> > N5ALE
> >
>
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