Jim Henderson wrote:

> What guest OS?
> 
>> VMware doesn't recognise the KNOPPIX ISO image as a Linux install disk.
> 
> I'm guessing Linux.

Specifically, a Debian Linux live CD containing about 4.5GB of data on a 
cloop-compressed ISO-9660 filesystem squeezed onto a single live CD. (It 
also features a crapload of automatic hardware detection.) However, 
there is an opion to install to HD, uncompressed. Once you do that, it 
behaves more or less like a typical Debian installation.

> OK - so if you install knoppix on a VMware hard 
> drive, go to the menu to install the VMware tools, and then look at 
> what's mounted in the VM; you'll see a mounted ISO has shown up and has a 
> tools installation script on it.

Got that far.

>> Where are the kernel headers? Um, no idea.
> 
> Well, that's what happens when you use a distro that's not officially 
> supported - if you try the openSUSE 11.1 or 11.2 LiveCDs or installers, 
> you should see the installation is much simpler.

OK, I'll probably try that then.

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