Fresh Suse 9.1 trying to install VMWare 4.5.1 - Unable to copy the source file
 

Hello-
I'm running Suse 9.1 and have just installed PERL 5.8.4.810 to run the VMWare installation program. I open a command line as root and run the installer. The installer then asks me some questions.
I answer the questions the installer asks with [enter]

These are the questions:

{
In which directory do you want to install the binary files?
[/usr/bin] (i hit enter)

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?
[/etc/init.d] (i hit enter)

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?
[/etc/init.d] (i hit enter)

Unable to copy the source file ./installer/services.sh to the destination file
/etc/init.d/vmware.

Execution aborted.
}

I'm brand new to linux and running things from the command line. So, i was wondering if anyone could take a guess as to what i need to do to make this work.

Thanks,
DeathCab for 2D

You need to su to root before running the installation script, because the script needs to write to system directories.

I'm doing all this from a super user terminal loged in as 'root'. If i need to use the "su" command i don't know how other than to actually switch users by loging out and loging in as root. What else do you need to know so you can help.