On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:47:09PM -0400, Jinwei Shen wrote:
> Have seen so much praise for this win4lin 3.0.5, I finally decided to
> upgrade my win4lin 2.0. However, I must clear up some questions
> first. :)
>
> 1 license issue?
>
> Can I use the win4lin 2.0 license.dat, or should I contact
> netraverse for a new license file?
The web site has information on that.
>
> 2 installer issue?
>
> I have been following this mailing list since I started using
> win4lin. I have seen a lot posts about problems with the
> installer. Can I do this upgrade without the installer since I can
> download Win4Lin-5.2.5b-d.i386.rpm directly from the ftp site?
I ran the installer the first time, but since then have gotten updates
from the ftp site. The installer did not complete for me (although it
did download the rpm, which I was able to install after converting it
with alien.
>
> 3 what to do with the old installation of win4lin and windows?
>
> Should I first remove the win4lin 2.0 installation?
> Can I keep the old win98se installation on my user account?
I removed the Debian package when I upgraded, but don't know if this is
absolutely necessary. I have not removed it when going to later 3.0
versions.
>
> 4 for debian users.
>
> Will alien the rpm package and then running the post installation
> script work? Or need other tweaks?
That is all I have needed to do. There have been some messages about
changing file permissions, but I haven't done that and everything seems
to be working correctly.
Bob
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