I was trying to install Win4Lin and Windows 98 on my computer, but it gave me this output (including error):
baby ~ # ebuild /var/db/pkg/app-emulation/win4lin-5.1.1/win4lin-5.1.1.ebuild config Checking the system. Found bootable CD-ROM. Extracting boot image ... Copying the Windows files. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Copying the Online Services subdirectory. ++++++++ Set locale info for current system. Pre-Installation Phase: Installing minimal DOS system... Installing DOS system files. Configuring DOS image files. BIOS V2.09 Copyright 1984, 1985 Award Software Inc. Quadtel Expanded Memory Manager Copyright(c) 1989, 1990 Quadtel Corp. All Rights Reserved Making MDA Image. MERGE_NL: dos: ERROR: Win4Lin drivers are not loaded or not available for use. Cannot run DOS or Windows. Either Win4Lin is not fully installed on your system, or the drivers cannot load, or too many simultaneous users. WARNING: MDA image was not made. (10) WARNING: No image files were made. WARNING: Images creation failed. ERROR: Failed to make all DOS image files. Installation of DOS partialy failed. ERROR: loadwindowsCD: The pre-installation of DOS has failed. This is likely due to a damaged boot floppy or image, or one that is incompatible with your Windows media. * You can now run the command "installwindows" from an xterm * as a non-root user to install a personal copy of Windows that Win4Lin * will use for that user. * * Win4Lin is a commercial product, you now are using a evaluation-license * for 15 days evaluation. If you want a extra 15 days of evaluation you * must run "sh /opt/win4lin/registerme.sh" * * You can help Gentoo Linux and obatin a full license at a discont offer * for gentoo users in http://www.netraverse.com/gentoo.htm * Netraverse donate to Gentoo Linux a percent of each purchase. * Thanks Netraverse. * * Remember, you must do "/etc/init.d/Win4Lin start" before start w4l * Also you can add it to default boot "rc-update add Win4Lin default" I know this is not true because I can install Win4Lin 5 and Windows 98 just fine on a partition with RH 9 running on it. Any thoughts? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
