On 19-Oct-00 Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bernie,
>
>> I have Win4Lin working in SuSE 6.4 and am considering upgrading to 7.0. Do
>> you know if it would work if I just keep the old 2.2.14 patched kernel until
>> a
>> 2.2.16 version is available. Seems like Win4Lin should should work but is
>> there something in the SuSE 7.0 version which requires the newer kernel?
>
> What I'd recommend, rather than doing a full upgrade, is to use Yast to
> add/replace packages using the SuSE 7.0 disks. A few packages should
> flag themselves as uninstallable until you install teh new kernel, but
> you can get a lot of the new stuff.
>
> Now, I'm interested ... did you patch the SuSE 6.4 kernel, or use the
> RPM to kernel-swap? I haven't been able to get the "SuSE-2.2.14smp"
> patch to work, and I need to tweak my kernel without losing Win4Lin.
> Win4Lin support seems to be ignoring my e-mail.
>
> -Josh Berkus
Thanks for the suggestion (and to others who replied.) The thing is at some
point soon I want to essentially start over as I don't like the partitioning at
the moment, so I would prefer to just install 7.0. Not urgent so I may just
wait until Trelos/Netraverse make a kernel for...
I did patch the SuSE 6.4 kernel. It took me a few tries to get it right, but
it works fine now. I've even recompiled to allow an external parellel port
tape drive to work without losing Win4Lin. I only have a single processor
though so haven't tried the SMP version.
Bernie Gardner
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