READ THIS CAREFULLY AS WE DO NOT OFFER ANY SUPPORT OR OTHERWISE OFFER
ANY SERVICE FOR THESE PRODUCTS.

IF TIME PERMITS I WILL ANSWER SIMPLE REQUESTS IF YOU EMAIL ME AT

aakeg@hagan.no

USING BAGVAPP IN THE SUBJECT FIELD.

I CAN PURPOSE BUILD APPLIANCES ON REQUEST INCLUDING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
BUT NOT WITH ANY TIME-LIMIT WHATSOEVER. I HAVE A FULL
TIME JOB AND I'M ONLY DOING THIS FOR A HOBBY!

BASICS AND DEFAULT VALUES FOR THE Fedora 9 - bagvapp APPLIANCE:

This appliance has been altered somewhat from the original including 
creating default user (bagside) and installing VMware-tools e.x.p-84113 plus the flash
and mplayer plugins for Firefox. The kernel-devel as well as some dev-tools has also 
been installed in order to install/compile modules and drivers. The xorg.conf jas been specifically
designed to work with the distro.

The install has been fully updated with patches and fixes on the 6th of April 2008.
Minor visual changes has been done mainly to suit me when I created the appliance.

Version= Fedora 9 RC  'Sulphur' - GNOME 2.22 Desktop.
Linux filesystem: ext3
Kernel= 2.6.25-1.fc9

Fedora home = "http://fedoraproject.org/"

RAM= 588 (which means at least 1GB memory is recommended)

ethernet0= "TRUE"
ethernet0Device= "e1000" (IntelPro)
ethernet0connectionType= "nat"

floppy= "FALSE"
serialports= "FALSE"
parallellports= "FALSE"

Physical CDROM drive
Present= "TRUE"
deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

Appliance size on HD= 3.7 GB
============================

Physical Disk Size: 12 GB
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|PASSWORDS:				|
|					|
|USER:	bagside				|
|PWD:	bagside				|
|					|
|USER:	sudo/su				|
|PWD:	bagside				|
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To be root from the commandline in bagside type "sudo" (without the "") plus
your command and you will then be requested for the password which is "bagside"
of course  :)

If you want to start the vmware-toolbox to enable copy/paste etc. launch an X terminal
and type:

sudo vmware-toolbox

The toolbox can be launched as a normal user or root but if you want to advanced work
like 'shrinking' and scripts you will need to be root.

The *.vmx file can be opened with a regular texteditor like notepad or whatever and
some parameters can be changed (like allocated memory). If you have a low-end machine you
can try to set the allocated memory for the elive guest to say 216MB (always in increments of 4MB)
which would allow you to run the guest on a machine with abt. 500-600MB. It will be
slightly slower but should work.

For ADVANCED editing and explanations on the *.vmx file go here:

http://sanbarrow.com/vmx.html

USB-Periferals:

USB sticks and printers have been enabled but you have to configure those individually on
your machine. To launch the periferal it is usually a good idea to plug it in when the focus
is in the guest. For instance if the focus is in the guest unplug and then plug the printer
back in  and then go to the printer controll to add your printer.

SUMMARY:

On my testmachines:

- FSC Scaleo H with Intel Pentium D (64 bits) 3066Mhz
- Acer Ferrari 3200 AMD Mobile 64 +2800
- 3GB RAM / 1.25GB RAM (Acer)
- XPSP2 Pro/XPSP2 MCE/VISTA Ultimate with VMwarePlayer 2

Following tested and works:
- USB Mouse, USB Pendrive, USB Printer
- Sound (vmware ensonic driver)
- Video (Firefox with mplayerplug-in)
- Internet (network: eth/dhcp)
- Cut n' Paste Drag n' Drop between Host/Guest installed and works.

Documentation on VMware Player here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/player_pubs.html

Other useful links:

Linus Questions:	http://www.linuxquestions.org/
Linux Filesystem:	http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
Linux commands		http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/

Enjoy this appliance and if you have something good to say please email me at

aakeg@hagan.no

Thanks!