>> I've just begun reading man:wine <insert glazed-eyes smiley>
>> and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs
>> within Mandrake.
Not just MDK, all any linux distro out there.
>> Never mind the fact that I can't make it
>> start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before
>> asking here], I thought I'd ask for the overview that perhaps
>> I'm missing...
Yes, your missing something. I have wine setup on my box, just installed an
app perfectly.
My config file is listed below all of this info here.
>> I apologise if this is a really stupid question, but like several
>> things when confronted with a totally new OS, if you're starting
>> off with the wrong assumptions you'll just waste a lot of time.
>>
>> Can you run a windoze session *in* Linux?
Yes, www.vmware.com
>> Like: you can run a DOS session in a window in windoze, and I've
>> heard you can emulate a PC on a Mac.
No.
>> If so, can you make the two "virtual machines" talk to each other?
Yes, its called virtual networking, read up on it on www.vmware.com or
whatever software your running, user-mode-linux.com is another but it wont
run windows apps, only a linux virtual server. Also there is virtual
server, dont know the info just saw it in the latest Euro Linux Magazine at
the latest B&N shelf in TX...it has SECURITY written all over it. There are
tons others like win4lin and the main company that does wine has another
version as well. Another called Cross-over Office.
>> For example, Mandrake can't see files on the NTFS partition
>> which Win2K is on, but if I had Windows running I could network
>> across to it from Mandrake, just like it was on my laptop?
Yes, www.vmware.com
Rob
Here is the ~/.wine/config file, I only listed what i have changed/edited in
the file.
[Drive X]
"Path"="/home/rwideman" (Unix path for drive root)
"Type"="hd" (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and
'network')
"Label"="my disk" (drive label, at most 11 characters)
"Filesystem"="win95" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat',
'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
Here is the /etc/wine/config file, i only listed what i have changed/edited
in the file.
[Drive A]
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Type" = "floppy"
"Label" = "Floppy"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"
[Drive C]
"Path" = "/mnt/windows"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Windows"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-Rom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
[Drive E]
"Path" = "/tmp/winetmp-${USER}"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[Drive F]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\"
"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
# <wineconf>
[Version]
; Windows version to imitate
(win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31)" },
"Windows" = "win98"
; DOS version to imitate
;"DOS" = "6.22"
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