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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:16:31
Message-Id: 200508252108.07185.john@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin by "Michael W. Holdeman"
1 yeah, well, a new install as of two days ago...it's 2.6.12. emerge --search
2 win4lin-source turns up nothing. Is there anothing thing I should be
3 searching for? I'm kinda new to gentoo, been using redhat and mandrake for 5
4 years, though.
5
6 On Thursday 25 August 2005 20:54, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
7 > On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote:
8 > > I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out
9 > > certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched
10 > > kernel available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? The
11 > > instructions they sent me said to emerge win4lin-sources, but emerge
12 > > --search finds nothing answering to this. I've already emerged the
13 > > win4lin itself, but without the kernel patches, it won't work. Running
14 > > 2005.1. I've got 29 days left to get my money back :) though I'd really
15 > > like this to work. --
16 >
17 > The Win4Lin-sources appear to be gone?? they used to be there.
18 > Although I usually patch my own kernel for the ck-sources optimizations. I
19 > think the gentoo, or vanilla sources patch pretty straight foreward,
20 > although I'd stick with 2.6.11, as the 2.6.12 series are problematic with
21 > the win4lin patch set so far.
22 >
23 > Mike
24 >
25 > Mike
26 >
27 > > John Jolet
28 > > Your On-Demand IT Department
29 > > 512-762-0729
30 > > www.jolet.net
31 > > john@×××××.net
32 >
33 > --
34 >
35 > Michael W. Holdeman
36 >
37 >
38 > ________________________________________
39 > Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org |
40 > Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 |
41 > Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com |
42 > Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com |
43 > ________________________________________|
44
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46 John Jolet
47 Your On-Demand IT Department
48 512-762-0729
49 www.jolet.net
50 john@×××××.net
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin "Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>