Once you've got it downloaded to one machine, just copy the /var/win4lin/installer_tmp/Win4Linblahblahblah.rpm to your other machines. -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-796-9023 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jens Benecke wrote: > Hello, > > on my system, when after the upgrade to 3.0 I call "win", the dosexec > process gets stuck in an infinite SIGSEGV loop. What is the matter here? > I'd appreciate any help. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --- > Some other comments about your new release: > > 1) download. > > I used the graphical installer to download the new win4lin, which was a > kind of hazzle: > > - First, I wanted to download on machine A, then install on machine > B,C,D. > Where did it put the files? Why don't you just offer the RPM file? > > - Second, not all the world uses RPM. So please don't assume that you > can > quietly install the RPM hidden behind a GUI, and then just stop > working > with "Installation failed" at 80% when RPM doesn't work. > > > 2) the package. > > - Why in all the world do all the files have uid 6319 and gid 124 ??? > Does > this make any sense? I changed those to root in the package, and the > postinstall script apparently changed it back. What for? > > This is not only a nuisance, it's dangerous. What do you do if uid > 6319 > is used? That user has write access to the complete installation. > > - The postinstall script is also RPM centric. Not all (not even all RPM > based) distributions carry their init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d. > Debian > also has an update-rc.d script which cares about the init structure, > no > need to manually symlink. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --- > > > I have created a Debian package that installs cleanly, and a 2.4.4 > kernel > with security enhancements and Win4lin support that might come in handy. > > > I'd appreciate if anybody could help me with the segfault problem. > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
