Using a vanilla kernel, this would have worked. I've helped 6 people here at
work do temporary installs so they can evaluate W4L, and it's not been a
problem yet.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin L Gaither [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:22 AM
> To: win4lin
> Subject: [Win4Lin-users] I finally fix my W4L3 and RH7.1
> install here is
> how.
>
>
> Well after a nasty battle with RH 7.1 and W4L 3.0 I have finally beat
> them into submission and they are playing to gether nicely. Here are
> the things I found out.
>
> 1. Probably the most interesting on is a kernel config problem.
> 1. I took the stock 2.4.2 kernel that RH installs and
> applied the patch
> for W4L.
> 2. I did make xconfig. Set Virtual Memory to 1G. and
> HIMEM off, set
> all other options I needed.
> 3. I look at .config and Virtual Memory is still set to
> 3G! What?
> Why? Well it seems to have a bug in it that does not set this up
> properly.
> 4. So I edited autoconf.h for the option manually, did
> make dep.
> 5. Made the kernel, and installed.
> 2. I dont know whose idea it was to make W4L allocate 16MB
> by default,
> but it was stupid. Windows by itself cant work with 16Mb. I was an
> idiot for not checking it sooner, but its at 64MB now.
> 3. After following the thread about the kernel VM problem, I added
> another swapfile to make sure I have 2x RAMsize for swap.
>
> I think all is well now.(Knock on wood!)
>
> justin
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