Nah, I'd just used the shortcut key to power on the vm and then the
shortcut to send input over to it. As far as any output, it was all
being sent to the vm's display. Either way, from the very little I could
see on the vm's window, it was pretty obvious that Linux was never
actually booting. After I'd power it on, it would take me to something
that looked like a grub menu and then right afterwards, have a tiny bit
of text in the top left corner that would never change. Typically, on
any other Linux installation inside VMWare, once the grub menu displays
and you make a selection, you'd see a great deal of text scroll on the
display. This scrolling would normally take at least a few seconds and
then either stop or clear out when it reaches the end, leaving you with
the login area where you enter your username and password.
I'd also tried to do the same installation outside of VMWare player and
everything worked as I'd expect it to, so I figured it was something
caused by VMWare itself.
I figured it was worth mentioning here in this thread, as if it is the
same problem, Debian failing to boot, it would certainly explain why
there's no speech. :)
Take care.
On 11/7/2016 3:08 PM, John Covici wrote:
How are you booting the machine and can you shell into it from another
computer? Once you shell in, it will be much easier to figure out
what is going wrong.
On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:15:38 -0500,
jeremy wrote:
Kind of a strange question, but I'd make sure that you are
actually able to boot into the new system, once you've finished
up with the install. I have absolutely no clue why, but the last
time I tried a Debian 8 install inside vmware, using the normal
text installer from the net install cd, I never could get it to
boot. I don't have enough site to be able to see what's actually
on the screen, but it certainly wasn't getting beyond just a
second or two after powering on the vm.
With any other distribution I've tried there, it worked great, so
I never could quite understand why the latest debian was giving
me issues with VMWare. That would certainly explain why you had
no speech on starting it up and why none of your commands seem to
work. haha
Don't know if it matters or even if it's what's behind your
issue, but I was trying it on the latest VMWare player with
windows7 as the host.
On 11/7/2016 1:56 PM, Hunter Hoke wrote:
Whoops. I also tried it as root and nothing happened.
On 11/5/16, Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 04:58:49PM -0400, Hunter Hoke wrote:
I used the installation speech with espeak.
Yes, I realize that, but you didn't answer my question which I left
intact below.
Greg
On 11/4/16, Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:00:13PM -0400, Hunter Hoke wrote:
I did. I typed Espeak hello, and nothing happened.
Logged in as root, or a normal user? If logged in as a normal user,
try it as root. If that works, then your problem is likely with
pulseaudio. If it doesn't work as root, then I'm not sure what the
problem could be.
Greg
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