Archive for June, 2008

VMware Fusion 2.0 beta 1 tools and OpenSolaris 2008.05

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I had a small issue getting vmware tools from VMware 2.0 beta 1 working under OpenSolaris 2008.05. I don’t know if it’s an issue in previous versions of either software.
First, when installing OpenSolaris 2008.05, choose VMware setup options for “Solaris”, and either 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your preference. I wanted, 64-bit, but [...]

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tar backup stupidity and limited space

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

So, pretend you have:

a new Mac laptop with a fast hard drive, but one that is smaller than all the data you need to backup
A backup hard drive you’ve used on Windows and Linux, but is formatted NTFS, and is much larger than your new laptop’s HD
You have files named on your system that needs [...]

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