Newbie Wine Question

[Dan Sawyer]

Russ,

I can't speak to Wine running your app. Wine is getting to be quite 
good, however qirks remain.

You are on the right track. Here is the 10,000 foot view:

1. Create a dual boot system.

2. Get wine sources and build wine. (others may say install the rpm)

3. Create your wine config:

       a. $HOME/.wine dir
       b. wine 'config' file in above dir
       c. mount the /dev/'win dir' in a /mnt/windir

That should get you started. There is much more, however those are the 
big steps.

Regards,
Dan

Russ wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a question about wine that I hope someone can answer.
>
> I have recently made the jump to all Linux (Mandrake 9.1). But there 
> are  some programs that I would like to be able to run under Linux. I 
> do not need to run MS Office (through Crossover Office), even though I 
> own a copy of MS Office professional. I use Open Office now and it 
> works just fine. I do not need to run WineX for games since the game I 
> play has a version for Linux (Tribes 2). The main program I would like 
> to run is Logos Bible software. I do have Gnome Sword running but I 
> have about $500 wrapped up in books for Logos. It would be nice to be 
> able to use it in linux.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> I have a registered copy of Win98SE. If I create a dual boot system 
> can wine draw from that partition and be able to run more apps with 
> more stability? If so, should Logos be installed on the Win98 
> partition prior to installing it in Linux?
>
> Can it also work with XP. I just bought a new Computer (Dell) and I am 
> going to put Mandrake 9.2 on it and hopefully set wine up to run 
> Logos. Since the computer comes preinstalled with XP Home could wine 
> use something from it?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Russ
>
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