The Win4Lin package was installed with RPM, so you need to
remove it via RPM. If you removed things by hand,
then RPM will get real confused and refuse to "remove" it.
It will really complain about the removal script
"/opt/win4lin/remove_rpm.sh" being missing. So just
make a dummy script with that name and make it executable,
and then run "rpm -e Win4Lin".
Note: You can't mess up Win4Lin permanently by having
a bad load of Windows, so there is no need to remove Win4Lin
if Windows does not load properly. You can unload the Windows files
without removing Win4Lin, and then you can re-load the
Windows files from a proper set. The command "unloadwindowscCD"
does the removal of the Windows installation files, letting
you do a fresh load of from the Windows CD.
As you found it is vitally important to have a matching
boot floppy for the version of Windows. This is not
a restriction of Win4Lin as such, it is what Microsoft has
implemented.
-David
Esteban Salazar wrote:
>
> I really messed up my install and I admit it is my fault. I tried to
> install WindowsME. Then I tried to install Windows98SE with the WindowsME
> Install floppy since I couldn't find my SE floppy. Then I found an SE
> floppy but by then the installer was giving me all sorts of errors.
>
> I then tried to uninstall the win4lin but the installer was too
> confused and refused. Then I tried to uninstall by hand by deleting the
> /var/win4lin and /opt/win4lin directories. I also deleted all win4lin
> reference from /etc/rc.d and from the /etc/default.
>
> Now the installer thinks that win4lin is installed and tries to go
> straight to installing windows again right before it crashes. I have
> looked everywhere for the thing that makes the installer assume that
> win4lin is installed but can not find it.
>
> How can I start with a clean slate now that I have the correct win98SE
> floppy and CD? How can I manually uninstall so that the win4lin
> installer actaully believes me?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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