Thanks very much. I got it uninstalled now. I didn't realize that it had
installed via rpm.
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, David Peet wrote:
> 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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