I know it will run slower, but for now i have my reasons why i want to do
this - for starters, i'm moving house shortly and need something set up for
a few weeks only to handle my finances - i've used CBB at home for years
now, so thought this would be the easiest way to be able to pack up my home
PC and use my office laptop temporarily !!
Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: John May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux4Win Install Problems
> I actually tried doing the Lnx4win on my Celeron 400 machine with 128MB
Ram
> and it was so slow that after it installed I almost immediately
uninstalled it.
> Once you have linux on native ext2 partitions running the Lnx4win install
will
> just seem too slow for you.
>
>
> *************************************
> Original message from: "Martin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Had absolutely no list activity all day, then got a whole host of
repeated
> >items alll at once (!!). Not sure if my post got through during all of
that,
> >so i'm forwarding it again as i'd really like to suss this one out.
> >Apologies if it get's received by people more than once....
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:27 PM
> >Subject: Linux4Win
> >
> >
> >> Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my
> >Dell
> >> Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and
> >> shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out
> with
> >> the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible
> >typos!):
> >>
> >> "
> >> install exited abnormally -- received signal 7
> >> sending termination signals ... done
> >> sending kill signals ... done
> >> unmounting filesystems...
> >> umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7:
No
> >> such file or directory
> >> <Tab><Alt-Tab> Between elements | <Space> selects | <f12> next
> screen
> >> /mnt/proc
> >> /proc
> >> /mnt
> >> /dos umount failed
> >> You may safely reboot your system.
> >> "
> >> Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly
> >> partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space
> >> temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just
> >copy
> >> the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping.
> >>
> >> I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other
> >> peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !!
> >>
> >> Martin.
> >>
>
