On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Bernie Fox wrote:
> I ordered the Mandrake 7.0 CD-ROM disk from the web site. I am following
> the directions for installing the Linux for Windows from the install guide
> on the disk (chapter 5). I have Windows 98SE installed and all works
> perfectly. I have 128mg RAM, more than half my 9.1Gig boot drive free and
> no other programs are running.
>
> From Windows, I go to the LNX4WIN directory and click on the Install.bat
> as instructed. I get the DOS window, I press the space key, I type in the
> letter of my CD-ROM as directed, and I get the following response:
>
> "out of environment space, please insert the right CD-ROM". Well folks, it
> IS the right CD-ROM and it IS the correct drive letter but that is as far
> as I can get.
>
> What is going on? Is there a bug, are there files missing? Please help.
>
Just install Linux in a separate partition. You'll be MUCH happier.
>From what I've read, the Linux4Win is slow as hell! Besides...in my
opinion, it's a bastardized version of Linux which runs on top of
Windows...
John
