Re: Installing Win4Lin On Sarge
Cool - A readme would indeed be a cunning plan - I remember being all at
sea when I tried, & found little in the way of help or assistance. Very
frustrating for a while.
I use vmware now - no where near as fast, but...
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 05:32, Chris Gray wrote:
> Thanks for your response:
>
> I was able to get Win4Lin installed today and will be writing up a
> 'newbie' howto later. I use Debian Sarge installed with the newest
> (final) installer. The use of Grub instead of Lilo made this project
> MUCH less of a hassle IMHO.
>
> Here's the run-down of what I had to do:
>
> 1.) Downloaded the patches from the NeTraverse website for the 2.4.25
> kernel
>
> 2.) Downloaded the Debian source files for the 2.4.25 kernel with
> apt-get - the kernel.org sources won't work (in this instance)
> apparently because of a cramfs/initrd problem.
>
> 3.) The Netraverse patches are not gzipped - they save as '*.patch'
> files. I was unable to use them until I first 'gzip'-ed them up.
>
> 4.) The patching instructions from NeTraverse are not suitable for
> Debian. I instead followed the instructions from Marcel Holtmann's site
> http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/debian.html - WITH ONE CRUCIAL
> EXCEPTION: when running 'make-kpkg kernel-image' I had to add the
> '--initrd' option - 'make-kpkg --initrd kernel-image'.
>
> 5.) Installed the resulting .deb file (in '/usr/src/') with 'dpkg -i'
> and it installed flawlessly into Grub.
>
> After rebooting with the new (patched) kernel Win4Lin installed
> perfectly! Windows 98 runs like a scalded dog and I have Adobe Photoshop
> and all my Macromedia products running beautifully.
>
> Hope this helps someone...
>
> Chris Gray
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:04, glenn wrote:
> > I've got it running on sid, but running 2.4.18 (custom obviously) - from
> > memory there's a section on the netraverse site for downloading kernel
> > patches, which included some debian patches.
> >
> > I don't recall requiring alien to conver the rpm file.
> > - Get back to me if you need me to ferret out more specific info.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 05:28, Chris Gray wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have purchased the latest version of Win4Lin and am trying to get it
> > > running under Sarge. My Kernel version is Linux 2.4.22-1-386. Has anyone
> > > else been able to get this to install and run correctly?
> > >
> > > I have searched prior posts and seen numerous references to an .rpm
> > > (Win4Lin-5.3.15b-d.i386.rpm) that could be converted with alien to patch
> > > the kernel. But those references are more than a year old and no such
> > > rpms seem to still be available.
> > >
> > > Any help GREATLY appreciated...
> > >
> > > Chris G.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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