office

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On 21 Mar 2001, Larry Hunter wrote:

>
> I'm also new to wine, trying to get Office 2000 to work.  I have a
> Win98 box that I can grab files from, but I do not want to make a FAT
> partition on my linux box.
>
> Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
>   Well, that would be easy - provided that you actually copy over a
>   *large* part of a Windows installation to ext2fs. Many office
>   versions are quite interconnected with Windows, so they really,
>   really, *really* need a large part of it.
>
> I tried that and still couldn't make it work.  I copied the entire
> WINDOWS/SYSTEM folder to an ext2 directory.  I tried substituting it
> for the windows/system directory that wine installs, and I still got
> the same "can't find windows installer" error.   Can you be more
> specific about what pieces of the Windows installation I need to copy,
> and how to configure wine to use them properly?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Larry

If you have the space, why not zip the whole windows drive and unzip it
in the directory you configure wine to use as C: ?  (dos/windows
zip/unzip is compatible with linux zip/unzip, I think.  Or if you can
mount the windose drive in linux, you can use

tartar <where_it_is_mounted> <where_you_want_it>

---/usr/local/bin/tartar
#!/bin/bash
tar -C $1 -cOl . | tar -C $2 -xpf -
---

or cpio -p

While windows/system has a lot of @#!*, it probably doesn't have all of
it.

Lawson
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