[mb-devel] Installing on Windows

[Lukáš Lalinský]

Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> I finally managed to download and install everything. The VM machine
> seems to be running, but it can't get an ip address from my router. I
> am am not using DHCP (because I need to set fixed IPs in my home
> network). Anyhow, I'd like to work on MB in the two 1 hour train trips
> I have three times a week, where I will not be linked to anything. So
> is there a workaround?

Is setting a static IP acceptable workaround? If yes, then just comment out this
line (or something that looks similar :)) in /etc/networking/interfaces:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

And add for example:

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1

Add some DNS server to /etc/resolv.conf. Restart eth0 and now it should use
static IP. Maybe you will also need to play with the VMware network adapters
settings on your host system, I'm not sure as I don't use VMware.