On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:24:10PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > >It works like a charm. Win4Lin also works (less features, but faster), > >but was a bit more of a hassle to set up (ymmv). > > > > Tell me about it. I tried it today. Downloaded the .deb (which I think is > nothing more than a alienated rpm), patched the kernel, installed it, but > winsetup just keeps crashing on me. I eventually got DOS working, but there > is no way to set up WIN95/98 via the commandline. I'm downloading the > general evaluation copy, see if that works. So how did you do it? >
I'm not really sure what was causing most of my difficulties. I had a number of problems. The install script didn't work, since it looks for rpm before dpkg (I have alien installed, which depends on rpm) and if it finds it tries a rpm install, which fails on debian systems (can't find /bin/sh --which doesn't show up in the rpm database-- or something like that). Installing the .deb with dpkg worked fine. I think I must have messed something up in the process and finally ended up removing all traces of Windows (including ~/win and ~/.merge) and re-installed it from scratch. The second time everything worked. I never figured out what really caused the original problem. The support on the win4lin-users mailing list was pretty helpful. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
