Installing Palm Desktop

[James Liggett]

Hmmm... never seen that before. I never did use version 20050524, so
there could be some regressions that I'm not aware of. I would ditch
this version and go with the current one, 20050628. But there's a catch:
They got rid of the config file and replaced it with registry entries.
As of yet, Winetools isn't yet aware of this, so you can't use it. But
getting windows installer to work is easy: Run instmsia.exe. The
installer will complain, but it will dump everything you need into
Windows\Installer\InstMsi0. Copy all the stuff in there to \Windows
\system. Then set msi.dll and misexec.exe to native, and Windows
Installer will work. Good luck. ;-)

James Liggett

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 00:15 +0100, Andrew Neil Ramage wrote:
> I'm trying to install the Windows Installer using Winetools. 
> Unfortunately, it stops about 60% through the "Preparing Installation" 
> phase with the message "The installer has insufficient privileges to 
> modify this file: C:\Config Msi\444860.rbf"  Anyone know what is going 
> wrong ?
> 
> System:
> 	Mandriva Limited Edition 2005
> 	Wine 20050524
> 	Winetools 2.1.2
> 
> The output from winetools is
> 
> [andrew at zeus Windows]$ winetools
> LD_PRELOAD=
> found gettext in path
> detecting Wine version... done.
> Drive C: is /home/andrew/.wine/drive_c
> Wine 20050524
> wine is executed as wine
> Parameters are --noexit
> Browser is /usr/local/firefox/firefox.
> WINEVER is "20050524".
> Calls to wine are executed as  "wine".
> Config is /home/andrew/.wine/winetools.log.
> CDROM is /mnt/cdrom2.
> Choice is Install Windows system software
> \*new\* fake Windows drive
> software installation verified by /home/andrew/.wine/winetools.log
> *new* fake Windows drive = installed at 08.07.2005 22:04:06
> dependency \*new\*
> dcom98.exe
> software installation verified by /home/andrew/.wine/winetools.log
> dcom98.exe = installed at 08.07.2005 22:04:50
> dependency dcom98.exe fulfilled
> Microsoft Internet Explorer.*
> Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and Internet Tools
> software installation verified by registry value
> dependency Microsoft
> Choice is Windows Installer
> InstMsiA.exe
> software installation verified by /home/andrew/.wine/winetools.log
> 1709160
> WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" WINEDLLOVERRIDES="" wine ./InstMsiA.exe
> waiting for wineservers to exit...
> 
> [andrew at zeus Windows]$
> 
> Andrew
> 
> You can be the captain
> I will draw the chart
> Sailing into destiny
> Closer to the heart
> 
> Closer to the Heart by Rush (A Farewell to Kings, 1977)
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> James Liggett wrote:
> > Hi Uwe,
> > I figured out how to install Palm Desktop, perhaps this might prove
> > useful to someone:
> > 
> > 1. Install native Windows Installer manually. To do this, install dcom98
> > first. Then run instmsia.exe. The install will complain, but it will
> > leave behind all the files you need in Windows\Installer\InstMsi0. Copy
> > all the files in there to Windows\system, and set msi.dll and
> > msiexec.exe to native.
> > 
> > 2. Install Windows Script 5.6. You can download it from here:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a8a18f6-249c-4a72-bfcf-fc6af26dc390&DisplayLang=en
> > Keep in mind that it's the English version though. To install it, set
> > setupapi to builtin and run the file.
> > 
> > 3. Run Palm Desktop setup like normal, and it will install everything
> > you need. 
> > 
> > Of course, running palm desktop is a different story (there is a crash
> > in WinMM that stops it from running.) I'm currently working on getting
> > Hotsync to work with my USB cradle using the visor driver, but there's
> > some problems with that. I'll post a dump of the messages I get and see
> > if I can make something happen. Thanks for the help :).
> > 
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >