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More work on the vmware building docs.
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icculus committed Oct 17, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Do this twice, for amd64 and x86, in separate VMs...
- Use Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop .iso, do easy install,
realname FatELF, username fatelf, password fatelf.
- Log in after install, fire up a terminal.
- Run update manager, get the latest and greatest.
- Run update manager, get the latest and greatest. Click "Restart Later"
- System -> Administration -> Login Window -> Security -> Enable Automatic Login
- sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake mercurial openssh-server gcc-multilib
- hg clone http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/fatelf
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- Shutdown and put this disk image aside for now.


After both machines are good to go...
After both virtual machines are good to go...

- Add the x86 disk to the amd64 VM, so it's /dev/sdb and the amd64 one is sda.
- Boot the amd64 virtual machine from a Ubuntu install .iso, 64 or 32 bit should do.
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- Consider setting a vmware snapshot, here.
- sudo ./merge.sh
- Pray everything worked, or all this time was wasted.
- Shut down the VM, remove the x86 disk. Delete the x86 disk and VM.
- Shut down the VM.
- Remove the .iso ... switch back to physical CD/DVD drive.
- Restart the amd64 VM, see if it worked. Should be able to choose x86 or amd64
from the grub menu now.
- Run vmware-toolbox and shrink the virtual disk.
- Restart the vm, edit the grub command line to boot from the x86 disk,
with root=/dev/sdb1.
- Fire up a terminal.
- sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt
- Run sudo vmware-toolbox and shrink the virtual disk at /mnt.
- sudo umount /mnt
- Shut down.
- Remove the x86 disk. Delete the x86 disk and VM.
- Zip up the vmware files and start to upload.
- Restart the remaining VM, make sure it worked, so you know if you have to
stop the upload. Should be able to choose x86 or amd64 from the grub menu
now.
- Shutdown.
- Zip up the vmware files and upload.
- You're done!



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