on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:36:06AM -0700, SJ (linux@sarahj.net) wrote:
> I need to be able to run software that hasn't been ported to linux on
> my system.
>
> Presently I have a duel boot machine, but I would rather run the
> software while in the debian linux boot.
>
> I realize that this requires me to download and install wine on the
> system, but what else do I need to do to get this to work?
apt-get wine wine winesetuptk
...the latter is a GUI configuration tool.
The first time you run it, it'll ask you how you want to configure your
system. At that point, to run an application, you'll want your legacy
MS Windows partition(s) mounted, I'd recommend something like:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,noauto,gid=mounts,umask=007 0 0
Note the umask and gid options. The former sets permissions to allow
group r/w/x permissions. The latter mounts the partition setting the
group ID to a group I've created for this purpose. Users allowed to
mount partitions are added to this group.
Then you'd invoke a program (such as MS Word) like:
$ wine /mnt/win/Microsoft\ Office/Office/WINWORD.EXE
Startup takes a while. My experience is that Office 2K isn't supported,
though Office97 worked pretty well.
> What I need to do is access the software (and files) in the Windoze
> partitions from wine in linux. Can anyone please give me an idea of
> where I need to look to find out HOW? Or if you've managed to do
> this, tell me how YOU did it?
A more useful option may be to use Win4Lin, which seems to provide
better legacy support than Wine at the moment. Frankly, I don't use
any legacy MS Windows apps, other than testing configs periodically.
Peace.
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