On 11/29/24 21:54, Dick Steffens wrote: > Can I create a virtual 32 bit machine on my 64 bit version of > VirtualBox? If I can, that doesn't solve the password problem, though.
Yes, you can. I have several 32-bit VMs on a 64-bit host with qemu. Virtialbox works the same way. The guest OS does not need to be the same CPU architecture as the host OS. If that were true, all VM software would be useless. To run 32-bit programs on your linux box, and I assume is some variant of Ubuntu, you will need to install the appropriate "multlilib" packages. The 'su' program does NOT work like 'sudo'. su - # switch to superuser (root) and needs root password su - <username> # switch to <username> and needs user name password The scribe installer is likely usubg "su" I am not sure if this is still true: Ubuntu disables the "root" account. Thus, "su" will not work to elevate user privileges. Once you install the multilib packages to enable 32-bit on your 64-bit Linux, you could just try sudo ./scribe THis will elevate you to essentially "root" (because Ubuntu does not use 'sudo' properly) and the 'su' shouldn't ask for a password, or re-enable 'root' like a real Linux power user. > I'm going to look through my old machines and see what I have that I can > install a version of Windoze on. Maybe that will work. I still have some > older Windoze CDs. Maybe one of them will work. Then my only problem is > finding space on the floor or the bench for yet another machine. 😉 If you can get the scribe program to work on Linux, the preference would be to skip Windows all together. Before trying Windows - assuming you can even get one to work with the M$ registration requirement - I'd try: WINE - https://www.winehq.org/ ReactOS - https://reactos.org/ -Ed
