I actually tried doing the Lnx4win on my Celeron 400 machine with 128MB Ram
and it was so slow that after it installed I almost immediately uninstalled it.
Once you have linux on native ext2 partitions running the Lnx4win install will
just seem too slow for you.
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Original message from: "Martin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of repeated
>items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of that,
>so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out.
>Apologies if it get's received by people more than once....
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM
>Subject: Linux4Win
>
>
>> Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my
>Dell
>> Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and
>> shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out
with
>> the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible
>typos!):
>>
>> "
>> install exited abnormally -- received signal 7
>> sending termination signals ... done
>> sending kill signals ... done
>> unmounting filesystems...
>> umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7: No
>> such file or directory
>> <Tab><Alt-Tab> Between elements | <Space> selects | <f12> next
screen
>> /mnt/proc
>> /proc
>> /mnt
>> /dos umount failed
>> You may safely reboot your system.
>> "
>> Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly
>> partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space
>> temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just
>copy
>> the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping.
>>
>> I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other
>> peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !!
>>
>> Martin.
>>
