vmware on FC1, on inspiron 8100

[Trevor Barton]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   on fairly short notice, i'd like to get the latest version of vmware workstation
> (release 6030, downloading as we speak) running on my inspiron 8100, under
> FC 1.  i'm flexible as to whether i run, as a guest OS, win2k or win xp, the main
> goal is to be running (ugh!) MS word -- sadly, openoffice won't quite do the job
> here, but the main thing is to get the OS up and running.

I had absolutely no problem on an 8200 with VMWare and FC1.  If you don't do

CC=gcc23 vmware-config.pl

you get warnings that may or may not matter, I ran it successfully without doing 
  the CC= bit for some time before I bacame aware of that workaround for the 
compiler mismatch and reconfigured it.

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