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I bought the boxed version of Suse Linux 9.1. The update went quite smoothly. Although it reported about 1500 package conflicts, they were all just consequences of kopete 0.81 (my icq client) and vlc 0.71 (my video player). I resolved the conflicts by first unprotecting the non-Suse packages that I had installed and then risking system inconsistencies. However, after the update both kopete and vlc still functioned. On the other hand VMWare 4.0.5 broke but updating to 4.5.1 helped.

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.