It's only a waste of time, because Win4Lin 2.0.2 should not work on a
Red Hat 7.1 system. 7.1 uses a 2.4.2 kernel. The ncurses errors you see
were fairly common on Win4Lin 2.0.x and Red Hat 7.0.
I took a quick glance at your support incident. I'll see if I can touch on
the second item you report.
I would propose two paths. The path you take depends on how much
information you want to collect for me. The first method I would propose
would be to go through the installer and after you receive the general
cdrom error is to manually mount the windows cd someplace. I'd use a
different mount point than /mnt/cdrom. Then change the source from
/dev/cdrom to the mount point you created. Note: you will need your boot
floppy this way. Do you have the same problems?
Second option I would propose here is to manually load the windows cd via
the loadwindowsCD command, executed as root. This does the same thing the
installer is trying to do. But it helps narrow down the problem to
installer, cd, cdrom, etc. If this is successful, you can continue with the
manual and run win4lin-install as a non root user to do the personal
windows install.
That would be my take on the situation, but you'll get an answer from
support sometime tomorrow (or later today as it turns out in my timezone).
Regards,
Mike
At 10:28 PM 5/31/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks Mike,
>
>Yes, it's a 2.02. OK I'll not waste more time on that. I also have a
>problem installing the 3.0 (General CD-ROM error)eval but for that I
>filed a longer story to your tech support.
>
>Also thanks to Robert And Michael, I installed the ncurses4 from RH7.1
>however with the same result.
>
>Regards
>Stig Nielsen
>
>Mike Badger wrote:
> >
> > I would like to verify you are trying to install Win4Lin 2.0 onto a Red
> > Hat 7.1 system? Win4Lin 2.0
> > only support up to Red Hat 7.0. For RH 7.1, you will need Win4Lin 3.0.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > At 03:27 PM 5/31/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > >When trying to install Win4Lin ver. 2 on my new RH7.1 with the patch
> > >(which BTW installs with no problems) I get the message 'missing
> > >libncurses.so.4'. I tried to make a symlink from libncurses.so.4 to the
> > >existing libncurses.so.5 but that result in another failure complaining
> > >about a problem with Mmerge and kernel incompability.
> > >
> > >Seems to me that the W4L install 2.xx got bindings to kernel 2.2.
> > >
> > >Anyone else tried a 'freshinstall'?
> > >
> > >Regards
> > >Stig Nielsen
> > >
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