Contents of the install doc file
LinuxMint-4.0-Light - installed mostly offline, public version
VMwareTools-6.0.3
VMware Workstation 4.5.3 to make the base VM and then installed into Player 1.0.6
VMware virtual machine settings:
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Host System Win2k sp4 offline
Guest system other Linux 2.6
8 GB disc capacity split into files < 2 GB
256MB RAM
NAT connected at startup
cdrom pointed to iso file: LinuxMint-4.0-Light.iso
everything else as default
Description of installation:
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Keymap Germany
VGA 1024*768*32
Start Linux Mint
Install Icon doubleclicked
English
New York
Keyboard Germany - eliminate dead keys
Partition
dev/sda1
8496MB
mountpoint /
at the beginning
ext3
dev/sda2
90MB
at the beginning
swap
Name: user
UserName: user
Password: user
ComputerName: LinuxMint
restart didn't work -> reset
login as user
Answer some questions:
enable root account
UserName: root
Password: root
Configure:
screen 1024*768 70Hz
fonts: Sans Dejavu 12 condensed, 13 for title, Sans Dejavu 14 mono
custom theme: Clearlooks, Metabox, Gnome folders,
Colors foreground all bright (no reverse selection)
wallpaper 1st (colors only) with gradient
save custom theme as Mint-root and Mint-user
screensaver off
filemanager list view, date format
Preferences->Sessions (for user and root)
disable mintUpdate
disable Restricted Drivers Manager
login window: Bianca
Mint-desktop: show mounted volumes
package removal:
Openoffice
Thunderbird
Gimp
Firefox prefs:
change fonts (preselected sans-serif has a kerning problem)
"Default font" and "Advanced->Sans-serif" to Bitsstream Vera Sans
"Advanced->Proportional" to Sans Serif
"Advanced->Serif" to serif
font sizes 16
set homepage/bookmark
go online in host and load page for favicon.ico
reduce cache to 1MB
clear cache
privacy delete on exit
cdrom pointed to iso file: linux.iso
shut down
cdrom in LinuxMint.vmx pointed back to "cdrom-raw"
zip
Note: Sessions: Power Manager and Tracker got disabled and reenabled later,
because shutdown-dialog needed 1min to show up and sometimes
the whole startmenu didn't start apps any more
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change boot sequence in VMware: harddisks first
log in as root
terminal:
apt-get clean
install VMwaretools Tools 6.0.3-80004
- point the cdrom to the external linux.iso file
- copy the VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz file to the /tmp and extract it there
- delete the .tar.gz file
- cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
- start the installer with ./vmware-install.pl
accept everything with <enter>
- video resolution: choose 3 instead of 2 (1024*768)
- delete /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
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boot and log in as root
delete Mixer applet in root (because of error)
create a file named /etc/init.d/local with this inside:
#!/bin/sh
mount -a
then run as root:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/local
update-rc.d local start 98 2 3 4 5 .
mkdir /etc/rc.d/
ln -s /etc/init.d/local /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Don't miss the . in 2 3 4 5 .
All you put inside this newly created local boot commands file named /etc/rc.d/rc.local
is executed at boot. The mount -a is useful for automatically starting up CIFS or SMBFS.
You'll find more info about this work-around at http://www.visoracle.com/download/debian/
shutdown
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repoint cdrom in VMware to physical drive: auto detect
start
start the toolbox (different from VMwareTools which get started automatically on boot):
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox
shrink disk
shutdown
add description to VM
shutdown
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start and choose "recovery mode"
give root password for maintenance mode
run:
swapoff /dev/sda2
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2
sync
sync
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
shutdown -h now
Note: swapoff gave error msg
zip all VMware files
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