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So far I never was able to run a Windows XP guest OS from a raw disk partition using Linux VMWare. Here's the discussion thread. I guess coLinux will rescue me sooner or later. OK. Now I got it working: The user who runs vmware must be a member of the "disk" group to have access to the partition where XP is installed. Then I downloaded the GAG boot loader disk image from http://gag.sourceforge.net.

In order to copy the file index.html from the local machine to vesuri.helsinki.fi the following command is needed:

scp -p /Volumes/Documents/michael/Sites/index.html jeltsch@vesuri.helsinki.fi:./public_html/index.html

The p flag preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file. The full path of the original file (/Volumes/Documents/michael/Sites/index.html) is of course not needed if the file is in the current directory.

As the binaries work on all Suse distributions, I though to skip the build process and just have the binaries unpacked by rpm and then add the suse-specific files to the correct places. These additional files are mainly kde.desktop files, icons and

export STADENROOT=/usr/local/staden-linux-1-4-1

and sourcing

/usr/local/staden-linux-1-4-1/staden.profile

in ~/.bashrc.

Thus the unpacking would be just
tar --extract --verbose --gzip --absolute-names --file=staden-linux-1-4-1.tar.gz

and