I got this running today.
Installation Steps:
1) Figure out what version of GCC was used to compile your kernel, 'cuz this same version will be needed to compile the Vmware-tools modules. If you don't have this match than Vmware will say gcc doesn't exist, even though it does. You can figure out what version the kernel was compiled with by looking at the output from the following command from the terminal:
cat /proc/version
2) Install the appropriate version of GCC for your kernel. For the latest DSL RC 4.11 RC1, this is 2.95. As a result I installed the following from MyDSL:
gcc1-with-libs.dsl
gcc-2.95.dsl
3) Change the symbolic link for gcc to point to the version of gcc you need. For example:
rm /usr/bin/gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 /usr/bin/gcc
4) Install the kernel source/headers for your kernel. If you're running the Linux Kernel 2.4.26, then the MyDSL package kernelsource.dsl currently has that kernel. If you're running 2.4.31 like I am, the following thread:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-33-19468-15.html
Has a link at the bottom to the 2.4.31 kernel source:
http://homepages.vype.de/Peter.Misch/kernelsource-2.4.31.dsl
If you're not running either of the kernels, then check out that thread anyway as it gives information on how to extract the kernel information and pull it together.
5) Click "Install Vmware Tools" within Vmware then run the following commands to mount, copy and extract the contents.
mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
tar -xzvf /mnt/cdrom/VMWareTools*
cd vmware-tools-distrib
6) Edit the vmware-install.pl to fix a problem the install script has with the version of df within DSL:
e.g.
nano vmware-install.pl
CTRL+W (Search For: check_disk_space {)
Find the line that says:
return ($dstSpace - $srcSpace);
And right before it put:
return 999999999999999999999;
7) Run the vmware-install.pl file like normal and everything *should* work properly with it finding the appropriate version of gcc & kernel headers.
