Re: Win4Lin

["Martin J . Hillyer" <hillyer@cmc.net>]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:02:15AM -0300, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Which is the RPM based distribution closest to Debian?
> 
> Win4Lin only comes in rpm and i don't want to mess my intallation.
> 
> Thanx.
> 
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> Felipe Alvarez Harnecker.  QlSoftware.
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Actually, win4lin comes as a .deb as well as a .rpm.  I've been running
win4lin for 7 months now on my Debian box, first on potato and now on
woody, all installed from the .deb.  The only thing you have to do if
you want to install on a Debian box is to patch the kernel yourself and
rebuild, since no patched kernel is available,  I've run every version
of win4lin from 1.0 up to the present beta-5.  Try hanging out on the
win4lin lists (check their website); you will find plenty of people
running Debian.

Good Luck,
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