Re: VMware with potato - any issues?
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 nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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