On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:57:32AM +1000, Raoul Golan wrote:
> > report: win4lin 3.0 + kernel 2.4.4 + reiserfs works perfectly. i even
> > munged it to work properly on a Debian system :).
> >
> > i'll put up a webpage about it sometime soon if i get enough replies to
> > this message asking about it ...
>
> FWIW, I'd be interested to see how it can be installed under Debian...
i'll write up a webpage about it sometime later, but in the meantime,
here's the quick and ultra-nasty way to get it working on Debian:
1. grab the netraverse installer and run it as usual
2. it'll die when it tries to install the RPM file. (iirc this is in
stage 2 of the installation.)
3. cd /var/win4lin/installer_tmp; alien *.rpm
4. 'dpkg -L win4lin' and make sure all those files in /opt/win4lin
are there
5. here's the nasty bit: the netraverse installer will still fail
even though the files are installed because it'll try to run rpm
to verify that the package is installed correctly. to fix this,
use this versatile little script:
16:15 /var/win4lin/installer_tmp% cat /usr/local/bin/rpm
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
make that file somewhere in the search path before your normal
/usr/bin/rpm executable.
6. installer should now proceed normally :).
found out much of this via the wonders of strace.
after the installation, the kernel modules win4lin loads (vnetd stuff)
seems to all work perfectly.
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