OK - finally got it installed. Problem was in it reading the cd.
/dev/cdrom is linked to a scsi device, but that wasn't working (more on that
in a sec) so I had been pointing it to /dev/hdd, and it recognized that that
was a source of windows files, but choked after that. I mounted /dev/hdd
manually and pointed the install to the mount point, and it rolled on.
Watching it boot up I noticed that there were lots of unresolved symbols
messages relating to scsi during the boot. They don't appear in dmesg, or
/var/log/messages, but /var/log/messages does have a bunch of modprobe
couldn't find messages. alot of them relating to a char dev - is this where
the scsi load is failing? Haven't tried it yet, but pretty sure I'm going
to need the cd set up as a scsi device for cd burning. Next thing to try?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Peet
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Second stage install
>
>
> It is trying to create the directory: ~/win/windows/inf/.hide
> Does ~/win/windows/inf exist? This is created by Windows
> when it is installing itself. If it did not exist then
> I would expect a different error message.
>
> Does this directory .hide directory exist?
>
> Did you try removing ~/win ?
> Removing Win4Lin and the new kernel should not make any difference.
>
> -David
>
>
> Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> >
> > Tried several things, but I keep getting stuck on the second
> stage portion
> > with an error message that says can't find $INF/.hide and
> unable to create
> > it. Lots of space on all my file systems - 2+ gig on / and on /var
> > Started with a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 yesterday, and
> have gotten this
> > every time that I try and install. Last try I completely
> removed Win4Lin
> > and
> > the new kernel, and started over. Anyone got any clue what I should try
> > next.
> >
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