Ben, I had assumed that the RPM method would not work as my machine is Redhat 6.2 and Revision 1.0 says it only support Redhat 6.0 and 6.1. Thanks for pointing out the licensing page. I did that and I am no longer getting license expiration messages. Thanks, Mark Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:25:06 -0400 From: Ben Pitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: NeTraverse Customer Support To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Going from 2.0 Beta back to 1.0 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark, Actually, you should only need to do an 'rpm -e Win4Lin', then 'rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Win4Lin/RPMS/i386/Win4Lin-1.0-1.rpm' as root, preferably from your home directory. You might want to back up your $HOME/.merge and $HOME/win directories first, but you should be okay. That should not cause you to need to reinstall Windows at all. Let us know if you have any trouble. In all reality, however, your beta copy won't expire, so long as you register on our website, and then follow the instructions to re-license your beta copy. You can register at this URL: http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin/downloads/beta/register.php I hope that helps. Regards, Ben Pitzer Support Engineer NeTraverse, Inc. "Mark W. Knecht" wrote: > Hi, > I'm going to need to down shift back to the 1.0 release of Win4Lin this > weekend as the 2.0 beta license runs out. I'm interested in understanding > what sort of precautions I need to take, and whether I'll need to do any > reinstallation of applications following the downshift? > > Can I simply back up my windows directories in my user accounts, remove > 2.0 completely, do the installation of 1.0, restore my user accounts and > play? Or do I need to reinstall Windows in my user accounts and reinstall > Windoze apps? > > I am also curious about what people are doing for backups under Linux WRT > Win4Lin. Do I need to back up anything other than user accounts to ensure no > loss of user data? I do not mind reinstalling Win4Lin and Linux in the event > of a major crash. > > Thanks in advance. > > With best regards, > Mark _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.trelos.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
