I don't want to know if a Windows could stand such a change.
]]>2) If I've built Arch using an AMD mobo (Duron) and switch the HDD to run on an Intel mobo (P4), will it just work?
Yep. A few months ago, I moved a hdd with Arch on it that was first installed in an AMD 2100 to a PIII. Put the correct modules in for the new system...Worked like a champ.
]]>I assigned 256 mb memory for win4lin and the result was that not only the windows-session was extremly slow but the whole computer was! It was like returning to windows 3.11 on a 286!
Next try will be to test Kqemu accelerator to see if that makes it faster.
Anyone that have done that?
:?
Just a citation from Win4Lin homepage:
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Latest News:
Win4Lin Pro™ Updated for Full Windows XP Support and Blazing Fast Performance
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I wonder what they are used to concerning speed? I mean in comparison when talking about Blazing fast ...
The file WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM is missing or corrupt. Can't start windows. Try to reinstall windows and choose -R at the first page.
In win4lin one can not restart installwinpro (ie the installationprogram) since it will see that it is allready installed. I suppose one needs to delete the GUEST.IMG file and restart - but that is the end for WinXP and win4lin on this machine! But the very reason for me to struggle was to get THIS machine to work with windows so that I could have the booking software installed here... Maybe I should make a new try with qemu and win98. Probably this computer is too old for win4linpro and xp.
(That is the thing I like the least with win4lin. I bought win4lin 4.0 but at the time I used suse and I didn't manage to patch the kernel som I never managed to get it installed. Then I moved to arch and found that here there were no problem to get a prepatched kernel. But now I had 2.6 kernels and then win4lin 4.0 didn't work. One needed 5.0 for 2.6 kernels. Well, in pached, I installed and everything looked nice, until I found out that I needed to buy a new license. At that time I didn't want to spend the money. And then win4lin pro came and I thought that this would be nice - but after I bought it I found that I had to use w2k! It wasn't possible to use win98 any more. Well I have a copy of xp so when the update came i gave it a try and it works if the computer is fast enough and not too old.)
There is a file in the directory $HOME/winpro that is called settings.locale
There one can assign extra memory and disable audio (which makes it work faster)
MRGPRO_WINDOWS_RAMSIZE=512
#min=64 max=512
MRGPRO_DISABLE_AUDIO="yes"
I will try these settings and see if it makes it work faster...
]]>I suppose it is american minutes - everything is bigger in america isn't it?
I'm affraid, at times, only our egos are bigger
Sometimes our mistakes are bigger, too, perhaps
]]>But the only thing I did was to delete the archive /opt/win4linpro and change name of the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4LinPro to Win4LinPro.bak and then I took away chmod so that it isn't executable. (I don't know if this last part is needed but I thought it would be safest to - at least I could check if the file is reinstalled as a sign that the installation have worked this far)
After that I used the script again and everything went smoothly - until I started with the microsoft stuff and the long waiting started.
]]># script wrote by soloport - slightly modified
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -f Win4LinPro-6.1.1-01.i386.rpm ]; then
echo "Please execute this script where the Win4LinPro RPM file can be found."
exit
fi
rpmunpack Win4LinPro-6.1.1-01.i386.rpm
gunzip < Win4LinPro-6.1.1-01.cpio.gz | cpio -ivd
mv opt/win4linpro /opt/
chown -R root.root /opt/win4linpro
chmod 755 /opt/win4linpro/*
chmod 755 /opt/win4linpro/etc/keymaps
chmod 755 /opt/win4linpro/lib/codepages
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4LinPro
cat > /etc/profile.d/win4lin.sh <<EOF
export W4LDIR=/opt/win4linpro
export PATH=$PATH:$W4LDIR/bin
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/win4lin.sh
/opt/win4linpro/bin/postinstall.sh
# eof
The slow part is offcause when installing windows. I have XP and that might be the reason for the slowness. In qemu they say that w2k works all right but xp is very slow. It might be the same in win4lin. But very much depends of the computer. Meanwhile I have installed it on a laptop and that did 'only' take 6 hours. (BTW - I have come down to 5 min left now - 2 hours ago it was 8 min left. I suppose it is american minutes - everything is bigger in america isn't it? )
On the laptop the only problem is that my cdrom is called /dev/cdroms and that means win4lin can't recognize it. I will look through configuration files and see if it can be changed in win4lin somehow. The only thing I so far have tested was spiderharp - and that went VERY slow, so I am not very hopeful about this...
]]>Now I used your alfa-version of script and it works fin until the last step:
chmod: cannot access `/etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4LinPro': No such file or directoryI checked the directories and the only postinstall-script I found was in /opt/win4lin/bin/postinstall.sh
Me thinks the file names, their locations and permissions may have changed from version to version -- since I wrote that script.
Sorry the install has been so slow. My attempt -- if I recall -- went relatively fast. It was when I actually ran Win2k that things ran SLOW. Hopefully your experience will at least be oposite mine (i.e. may have a slow install but will execute fast).
Curious: What version of Windows are you installing over win4lin pro?
When things are working for you, could you repost the script with your updates? Thanks!
]]>I will not use it for gaming or anything that needs fast processing but my hope is that it will be possible to install the booking software in it so that I can stop dual booting. But I start to doubt...
]]>I will do that, but in order to do it one needs to remove the old installation.
That means a lot of manual work I guess. I will try it when I get the time...
]]>I could install win4lin pro all right
I had the license-code entered all right. (btw - if I should give an advice it would be to try install it first and use the evaluation period of 14 days. If you like it - buy the license-code. I blow it by buying it before installing it... I was fooled by the mandatory registration but you can register and get the files without a license. The registration is done on the web-page and you get a license-text to save on your computer in a file called license.lic in the /var/Win4Linpro/install directory.)
The last steps means you have to make a guest-installation and you have to start a guest session. None of these works for me and I don't know why. I wait for answer from the support. This happens:
> installwinpro
Selected winxppro to install by default
installwinpro: installation details:
Target directory: /home/johan/winpro
Windows version: winxppro
Guest image size: 4G
hostname: Unknown host
>
On the uppdate-pages at win4lin they talk about a earlier problem with "unrecognized host" but if this is that problem or another one I don't know.
]]>Now I used your alfa-version of script and it works fin until the last step:
chmod: cannot access `/etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4LinPro': No such file or directory
I checked the directories and the only postinstall-script I found was in /opt/win4lin/bin/postinstall.sh
Now I think it will work.
btw: My reason for installing win4lin is that I need windows to be able to use my economic system (SPCS administration). All my attempts using wine, cedega, qemu, crossover office etc have been in vane. And for each try I gave more and more up about trying to have at least one computer work in windows. It takes too much time cleaning end reinstalling things after virus and spam-attacks... So now I hope this try will work...
]]>I'v download the rpm and run that sh script.
but "/etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4LinPro" does not exist.anything else i should do?
Sorry for the slow response. Have been away from these forums for a while.
I think the thing that's missing in the script is to run:
/opt/win4linpro/postinstall_rpm.sh
(can put it at the very end)
As I mentioned, the bash script was just "notes" -- in case I ever had to install again. It's not been tested.
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