[mb-devel] Installing on Windows

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/7/2, Lukáš Lalinský <lalinsky at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Thanks, I found an easier option for someone who never used Linux. Now
I guess I will have to start learning at least the basics ;-)

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria