Eeeeek! Using x-windows to connect to a linux box running on vmware might be a bit too much for my brain deficiency. I have a hard time figuring out whats up and down as it is...

Interesting...

Hmmm...<ponders>, is it still too late to change my account name to Kandirella?

For that much dough I'd say you won't have a problem getting a sweet box. Most people will tell you about online site which have good deals, but I'd like to toss in a point for buying it from your...

FYI, I use samspade.org to whether a site is up or not. Like this:

http://www.samspade.org/t/safe?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kylekonline.com

You can even test for other open ports, like this:...

Trying to use dhcp to get an ipaddress? VMware4 + redhat9 (not supported atm btw) has a problem with that, which is why you have to do some fiddling with a few network files to make it work. Go to...

Ahh, good points! Seems obvious now that you say it :)

I'm not so sure about that "cannot be change" part. Somewhere in the code the brower is told where to store temp files, so at least in the case of mozilla this behaviour could be changed to another...

I'm not sure this is related to your problem, but Vmware seems a bit funky when it comes to dhcp, at least that's my experience with VM4 and redhat 9.0. If you are also trying to use dhcp to no...

Well ok, thanks for the info. I'll check up on your suggestions. Perhaps there's hope yet.

Cheers,
Kandir

Strange one!
A few more troubleshooting ideas/questions to add to the pot:

* Can you surf to Ip addresses with IE (versus domain names)?
* Can you telnet to sites (via port 80)? If not, can you...

I'm using Redhat 9.0 in Vmware on an XP host, and have dedicated 92 Megs of RAM for the linux to run on. THis works just fine in text mode, but when I load the gui desktop it runs out of memory and...