[newbie] win4lin

2005-03-24 Thread Christophe
Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. How can I install win 98 ( I have the cd for it) on my machine who is completely dedicated to MDK 10.1 community. I saw a win4lin kernel, what is the purpose of it? Is

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2005-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 14:32, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) It certainly can be done. Of course it depends whether you have the time to troubleshoot your problem. and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. I don't

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2005-03-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 24 March 2005 15:32, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. How can I install win 98 ( I have the cd for it) on my machine who is completely dedicated to MDK 10.1 community.

Re: [newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 16 April 2004 01:49, Marc wrote: It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will

[newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-15 Thread Marc
It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will happen? Will my existing kernel be replaced or will the new kernel be added. Will I be

Re: [newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:49, Marc wrote: It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will happen? Will my existing kernel be replaced

Re: [newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:49 pm, Marc wrote: It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will happen? Will my existing kernel be

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 2:05 am, Grant wrote: I've got to add that I use Win4Lin and I love it. - Grant So do I - it's the only win98 that I have ever had as a stable install. It does very much depend, though, on which windows version you want to run, what windows file system and what

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:27:13 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So do I - it's the only win98 that I have ever had as a stable install. That's our morning funny! Thanks Anne! Long time no see... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net

[newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Harv Nelson
I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other cautions, caveats, evaluations, comments you'd care to give are much

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:51:46 -0500 Harv Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Cody Harris
So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? - Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:51:46 -0500 Harv Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm one step closer

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Grant
I've got to add that I use Win4Lin and I love it. - Grant I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:42:06 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:42, Cody Harris wrote: So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? No. VMWare is like VPC; WINE and Win4Lin are layers that allow you to natively run the Windows applications. -- Wed Jul 16 11:25:00 EST 2003 11:25:00 up 2 days, 3:28, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.65, 0.56

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Paul Kaplan
I got wine to run Excel 97 Word 97 (at least for what I was doing using the RPMs that came with Mandrake 9.0, but something got broken in LM9.1 I do use Crossover Office for several windows apps at work and it does an impressive job under 9.1. Office XP apps are at least as fast as under

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Grant
What is VPC? So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55 CDT 2003

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Cody Harris
: RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE What is VPC? So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55 CDT 2003

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 09:51, Harv Nelson wrote: I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other cautions, caveats,

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Roland Hughes
Has anyone managed to get TaxCut to work under wine? This would allow me to get rid of my last windows partition. Roly On Tuesday 15 July 2003 06:28 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: I got wine to run Excel 97 Word 97 (at least for what I was doing using the RPMs that came with Mandrake 9.0, but

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread aron smith
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:30, Roland Hughes wrote: Has anyone managed to get TaxCut to work under wine? This would allow me to get rid of my last windows partition. Roly Hell I had enough trouble getting Tax Cut to work under Win98 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 11:27, Grant wrote: What is VPC? VPC (Virtual PC) is a software program for Macintosh/Apple computers that creates a virtual pc - an emulated x86 architecture - but with Windows98 installed (although you can set it up to run almost anything x86 based); it has been very

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Roland Hughes
It worked fine under windows but I want to get rid of that. Roly On Tuesday 15 July 2003 08:44 pm, aron smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:30, Roland Hughes wrote: Has anyone managed to get TaxCut to work under wine? This would allow me to get rid of my last windows partition. Roly

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 3:53 am, Greg wrote: Hi everyone Has anyone here used win4lin I just wanted to get some ideas on it I was thinking of buying it Not really sure how good it works and what limits it has Thanks Greg I use it for some lagacy apps with Win98. It boots up faster than

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Derek Jennings
There is a setup utility which allows you to configure Com1, com2, printer, and 'custom' for Win4Lin although I have not tried using a serial port. derek On Thursday 13 Mar 2003 4:22 am, Greg wrote: I use a laptop to program hvacr controllers The honeywell software will only run on

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:12 am, Miark wrote: It should be said that lack of USB is not a problem in the case of USB printers connected directly to the computer. _Linux_ sends Windows print data to the printer, and obviously Linux has no problem with USB. I have a USB printer that I use in

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Jerry Barton
I got it to work with a serial mouse, so the serial support works to that extent anyway. HTH Jerry. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:01:02 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a setup utility which allows you to configure Com1, com2, printer, and 'custom' for Win4Lin although I

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Peter Pankonin
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 08:53 pm, Greg wrote: Hi everyone Has anyone here used win4lin I just wanted to get some ideas on it I was thinking of buying it Not really sure how good it works and what limits it has Thanks Greg Works great with Adobe Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 7 (haven't

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Miark
Er... isn't that what I just said, Greg? Miark On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:20:58 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:12 am, Miark wrote: It should be said that lack of USB is not a problem in the case of USB printers connected directly to the computer.

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:22 am, Miark wrote: Er... isn't that what I just said, Greg? Miark On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 06:20:58 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:12 am, Miark wrote: It should be said that lack of USB is not a problem in the case of

[newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Brian
I guess I don't understand why you would choose one of these over the other. I am familiar with VMWare, and that seems to make the most sense if you need to run a particular Windows (or other OS) application within Linux. I know it is a virtual machine and will let you connect back to the

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Preston-Campbell
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:58 am, Brian wrote: I guess I don't understand why you would choose one of these over the other. I am familiar with VMWare, and that seems to make the most sense if you need to run a particular Windows (or other OS) application within Linux. I know it is a

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:58 am, Brian wrote: I guess I don't understand why you would choose one of these over the other. I am familiar with VMWare, and that seems to make the most sense if you need to run a particular Windows (or other OS) application within Linux. I know it is a

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 04:12, Greg Meyer wrote: In my mind, the most cost effective sure thing is Win4Lin, assuming one does not have to run one of the NT flavors of Windows. I believe that VMWare is really aimed at the developer market so that applications can be easily tested for

[newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-12 Thread Greg
Hi everyone Has anyone here used win4lin I just wanted to get some ideas on it I was thinking of buying it Not really sure how good it works and what limits it has Thanks Greg -- Linux Mandrake Rules __ Try AOL and get

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:53 pm, Greg wrote: Hi everyone Has anyone here used win4lin I just wanted to get some ideas on it I was thinking of buying it Not really sure how good it works and what limits it has Thanks Greg I use it with Windows98SE and find it to be an excelent

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-12 Thread Preston-Campbell
I use Win4Lin every day, simply because I have to run some Windows programs for work -- mainly Photoshop and a few legacy apps that don't work with Wine. It is, in my opinion, an ideal solution in this case. The only limitations I have experienced are its lack of USB support (in my case for a

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-12 Thread Miark
I have it, and I use it for work. It doesn't run DirectX, and doesn't support USB. Other than that, it's excellent, and less expensive than VMWare. Miark On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:53:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg) wrote: Hi everyone Has anyone here used win4lin I just wanted to get some

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-12 Thread Greg
I use a laptop to program hvacr controllers The honeywell software will only run on windows I would have to have serial and pc card support Will it work with those And thanks to everyone for the info Greg PS You just have to love Linux and the people who use it Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2003-03-12 Thread Miark
It should be said that lack of USB is not a problem in the case of USB printers connected directly to the computer. _Linux_ sends Windows print data to the printer, and obviously Linux has no problem with USB. I have a USB printer that I use in Win4Lin and it works perfectly. Miark Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2002-12-19 Thread jerry
- Original Message - From: Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win4Lin On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:46:01 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For normal every day apps it works great though. I can run MS

[newbie] Win4Lin

2002-12-18 Thread Jerry
someone was suggesting win4lin to try to run a couple of programs.. counter strike and something else... (sorry lost the original mail) I own win4lin and I can tell you one thing... if it required direct x it won't run on win4lin some network programs won't run on it (ones that i've

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2002-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 7:51 am, Jerry wrote: someone was suggesting win4lin to try to run a couple of programs.. counter strike and something else... (sorry lost the original mail) I own win4lin and I can tell you one thing... if it required direct x it won't run on win4lin some

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2002-12-18 Thread Smiley
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:46:01 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For normal every day apps it works great though. I can run MS office, Realplayer, Quicktime, Photoshop, thing like that on it with no problem. Jerry Just to add to the list - I run Lotus SmartSuite and PagePlus 8

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin

2002-12-18 Thread Richard
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 10:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 7:51 am, Jerry wrote: someone was suggesting win4lin to try to run a couple of programs.. counter strike and something else... (sorry lost the original mail) I own win4lin and I can tell you one thing...

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Jim Dawson
WooHoo! Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0 works on '8.2 yet? -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:01:13 -0700 Subject: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 Win4lin users: The 8.2 kernel/patches are now available

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread rjgdag
what is the difference between mandrake 6.1 and 8.1 a friend of mine has 6.1 he said i could use, is it worth running Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Miark
Mandrake has evolved significantly since 6.1. It has more features, greater performance, greater power, more support for hardware, and more software. You would be wise to install 8.1. Of course, you would be even wiser (yes, sage-like) to try out 8.2 which was just released a couple of days

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Jim Dawson wrote: WooHoo! Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0 works on '8.2 yet? -Original Message- From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:01:13 -0700 Subject: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 Win4lin users: The 8.2 kernel/patches are now

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Kenn Yahoo
any idea when the power pack 8.2 will be ready to ship? - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2 | Jim Dawson wrote: | | WooHoo! | | Does anyone know if VMWare 3.0

[newbie] Win4Lin ready for 8.2

2002-03-19 Thread Miark
Win4lin users: The 8.2 kernel/patches are now available available via the installer. They'll also be posted to their web site by tomorrow morning. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] win4lin 3.0 vnet

2002-02-20 Thread Paul Kraus
I have installed win4lin and set it for vnet. But when I booted windows there was no nic info at all. I added merge nic as the driver and set all the tcp ip setting to what they should be for dhcp. It then asked me for io/irq info for the card. I left it at the default setting. When I reboot it

[newbie] win4lin

2001-12-02 Thread Gerard van Winssen
Hi, I've been installing Win4lin from the powerpack cd's. (I have LM 8.1) In second stage install , booting the win4lin kernel , the computer hangs, gives A kernel panic or reboot by itself at the end of A boot over and over again. I suspect it has something to do with the Ext3 filesystem I

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2001-12-02 Thread lee
I have the same setup here,and have seen this error. For what it's worth(which ain't much)..I suspect it has something to do with the kernal patch which must be downloaded from the win4lin site in order to work with 8.1 a corrupted download perhaps. I'm using win4lin ver. 3.0 btw. My personel

[newbie] Win4Lin and nVidia drivers

2001-12-02 Thread Miark
Any of you who use Win4Lin and have nVidia cards probably noticed that you could never boot to the Win4Lin-patched kernel AND play 3D accelerated games. Well that's finally changed. The drivers that nVidia released a few days now give you the best of both worlds! Get 'em if you haven't already!

[newbie] win4lin-- I need more info about it

2001-09-27 Thread Roderick Scotto
Hi ppl! For of all I would like to thanks all the ppl of the linux community for helping to achieving Linux as a state of the art OS. Unfortunatley I am still a university student and most of my application run only under windows I saw a screen-shot, It which there was mention some

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2001-07-31 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jul 25, 2001, John Rigby wrote: This is not hidden somewhere in Powerpak 8 is it?? Nope, sorry... see www.netraverse.com. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 22 hours 16 minutes.

[newbie] win4lin

2001-07-25 Thread John Rigby
Ha folks, This is not hidden somewhere in Powerpak 8 is it?? -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now Webhosting?? What on earth for?? Info here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (it's only an Autoresponder) :-)

[newbie] win4lin and mandrake 7.2

2001-05-31 Thread Matt Moore
i downlaoded and installed win4lin - howvever, after stage one of the install was completed and the win4lin kernel patch was installed i rebooted and continued with stage 2 (instalation of windows). but when the win4lin installer tries to access the windows install cd to do so it says could