I've been fighting with VMware for two days now and can't get this to work. I defined an e1000 card as described here, which seems to be recognized just fine by the kernel.
It boots to a login prompt, and I can log in as root, but ifconfig returns empty. No interfaces at all. If I run dhcpcd from the commandline, it creates eth0 and gets an address on my (vmware bridged) local network, and I can ping the world from the VM, and I can ping the VM's IP from the world, but it doesn't respond to the name "tower".
ifconfig doesn't show a lo0 interface, and I can't even "ping tower" from the VM's commandline.
I get a few errors during boot that look interesting:
mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/UNRAID does not exist
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf: line 18: /boot/config/network.cfg: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf: line 19: /var/tmp/network.cfg: No such file or directory
Now, if I'm interpreting that by-label line correctly, that means it's looking for a disk called UNRAID, which I have:
C:\PROGRA~1\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>vmware-mount q: "c:\virtual machines
\unraid\unraid-system.vmdk"
C:\PROGRA~1\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>dir q:
Volume in drive Q is UNRAID
Volume Serial Number is 48F7-555B
Directory of Q:\
10/06/2007 10:17 PM 1,357,312 bzimage
10/06/2007 10:17 PM 29,611,058 bzroot
03/20/2007 03:45 PM 5,124 license.txt
01/03/2007 10:57 PM 99,256 memtest
06/10/2007 03:52 PM 33,404 menu.c32
10/06/2007 10:17 PM 2,093 readme.txt
08/27/2007 10:44 PM 196 syslinux.cfg
7 File(s) 31,108,443 bytes
0 Dir(s) 99,405,824 bytes free
I'm fairly new with linux so I appreciate your patience and suggestions!