I much appreicate so many people's helps!
OK. I have my job HALF done finally although in 0 & 1 world this means
"not finished at all". I would like to feed back what I have experienced
in win4lin beta 2:
I am running a cloned Slackware distribution (from
http://cle.linux.org.tw/) with kernel 2.2.13 and XFree86 4.01 in a
no-brand notebook PC with AMD 500MHz.
* The Trouble Shooting document says:
The directory /opt/merge contains the files ...The directorys
/var/merger contains the files...
** What I experienced:
Directories /opt/merge and /var/merger do not exist at all. Perhaps this
document needs revision for non-RPM distributions like Slackware.
* The installation documentation says:
Run "sh install-win4lin.sh" after "rpm -i win4lin.rpm."
** What I experienced:
As suggested by Robert, "/opt/win4lin/postinst_rpm.sh" should be run
instead of "sh install-win4lin.sh" because file install-win4lin.sh does
not exist in my file system. This must be clearly written in the
Installation Instruction for non-RPM distribution users.
** What I am told and follow:
Slackware users need to create directories /etc/rc.d/rc2.d, rc3.d,
rc4.d, rc5.d, init.d in /etc/rc.d prior to running "rpm -i win4lin.rpm".
** What I experienced:
Symolink libncurses.so.4 to libncurses.so.5 is necessary in my system.
** What I experienced:
I removed win4lin and re-installed it again.
I did not run "winsetup&" in X this time. Instead, I ran "loadwindowsCD"
without X. It seems that win4lin is finally properly installed and
configured this time after about a week's work. Now command "dos" works
and I can do some dos commands like "dir, cd" in dos window.
My last win4lin problem which probably will not be solved in near
future:
I login as non-root user and start "win&". Then dialog "Windows is not
installed. Do you want to install it now?" shows up. I then click on
"OK" button and win4lin exits silently. I guess this is because win4lin
does not support Chinese Windows yet. So I might have to wait Netraverse
or turn to VMware for now.
By the way, it took me aonther week to build and make rpm 4.0 to
PARTIALLY work in my PC. Actually, command "rpm -e" does not work at
all, and "rpm -i --nodeps" doe not work either for some package files
like vmware.rpm. So, I removed rpm database first and issued "rm -r
/var/win4lin /opt/win4lin" in place of "rpm -e" to remove win4lin.
Perhaps rpm is too powerful for fools like me to use!
Regards, Gurus.
CN
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