help with win4lin

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:57:48AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
> Right, I've taken the plunge and paid for Win4Lin... only problem is 
> that I can't get it to work...
> 
> It won't install because it doesn't like the Ubuntu kernel :-(
> 
> So, I've gone to 
> http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_generic.php and 
> downloaded a 2.6 kernel rpm, but that then says that there's a failed 
> dependency as follows...
> 
> root at ubuntu:/home/seanmiller/win # rpm -i Kernel*686.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>        /bin/sh   is needed by Kernel-Win4Lin3-NeTraverse1.0_2.6.8.1-03
>        /bin/sh   is needed by Kernel-Win4Lin3-NeTraverse1.0_2.6.8.1-03
> root at ubuntu:/home/seanmiller/win #
> 
> But /bin/sh exists... so I haven't the faintest idea what it's going on 
> about...
> 
> Anybody any ideas on how I can get this to do something? Or have I 
> wasted my $35 ?

I downloaded Kernel-Win4Lin3-NeTraverse1.0_2.6.8.1-03.i686.rpm and
converted it to a .deb with alien.  I then installed the resulting
kernel-win4lin3_NeTraverse1.0_2.6.8.1-4_i386.deb using dpkg without any
problems.  

Converting a .rpm file to a .deb and using dpkg is safer than just
installing it with rpm because the dpkg database will know of the
existence of any files it installs.