OpenEuphoria

Re: off topic : WinLinux

• Posted by JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET Nov 22, 1999
• 515 views

EU>I am proudly announcing my 87th failure to penetrate the Linux
EU>universe. Well, to tell the truth, I lost the count long time ago.

EU>Mercifully I don't remember where I read about WinLinux universal
EU>remedy, a sure fire thing, a piece of cake. I spent all Sunday
EU>downloading it, all 145 Mbytes. I should have known better.

EU>First of all, it did not recognize my Cirrus Logic card, the most
EU>common, cheap alternative around here two years ago. It offered me a
EU>*16 color* generic driver instead. Ok, great, I thought, I can always
EU>fire my old Amiga in the basement, if I want to see a rainbow. It did
EU>not notice my cdrom either. Not a problem, finally I found some use
EU>for the retired 486 across the room.

EU>The rest was plain sailing, as promised. It took only ten minutes and
EU>about 800 Mbytes of space, and it even installed a pretty icon on my
EU>desktop.

EU>Then I double clicked it and the whole bloody thing disappeared into a
EU>black hole...

EU>Deep depression is setting in fast, I am almost suicidal. All I need
EU>to tip me right over is reassurance I am the only twit around who is
EU>denied entry into this paradise.

EU>jiri

You can select your graphics card and hit the Force Settings button to
select your graphics card. Without the right graphics card, it may hang
while starting X-Windows (in this case, the window manager is KDE). You
could try finding the right graphis setting, or you can make it boot
into the command line until you can fix it.

To make it boot into the command line, edit the etc\inittab file in your
WinLinux directory (c:\linux is the default). The first line that isn't
blank or a comment reads something like this:

id:3:initdefault:

Change the 4 to a 3 (4 is the standard Multiuser X-Windows runlevel, 3
is the standard multiuser text mode runlevel), and start WinLinux. You
should be able to log-in as root and try to figure out how to set-up
your graphics card (this is a fairly easy, but tedious process - e-mail
me if you want more information on this).

I used WinLinux for a while on my laptop, and it worked quite nicely. I
like to play around with the advanced features, so I rebuilt the kernel
a couple times, set-up my network card etc. Then I tried to use Samba,
and it got really messed-up and stopped working (it hung after Starting
Samba..., so I moved the Samba start-up file, which I think messed up
the UMSDOS file information).

WinLinux is a great distribution for experimenting with Linux. It
usually seems to get linux up and running very quickly and easily.
Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems getting software to run on it. I
am using RedHat 6.0 my two other linux machines, and I couldn't get any
software I had to run on WinLinux. I was especially disappointed that
Euphoria and WordPerfect 8 wouldn't run.

Jeffrey Fielding
JJProg at cyberbury.net
http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/