[Wine] Can't make "Running MS Office 97 under Linux with Wine" work

[ralphl]

Following the Office 97 installation instruction given in http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsoft/running-ms-office-97-under-linux-with-wine.html failed to work for me.  I get to the point where it says to install DCOM98.  The terminal listing shows many errors:

ralph at ralph-laptop:~/Download_folder$ wine dcom98.exe
err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code 1703
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 32 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\rpcrt4.dll" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\rpcrt4.dll"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\install.exe" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\oldole\\uninstall.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\dcom98.inf" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\oldole\\dcom98.inf"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\eula98.txt" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\license.txt"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\relnt98.txt" -> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dcom98\\relnotes.txt"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 5 L"C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP002.TMP\\dcom98.inf" -> L"C:\\windows\\inf\\dcom98.inf"
ralph at ralph-laptop:~/Download_folder$ wine regedit
err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code 1703

However, when I look in .wine/drive_c/windows/system32, I find that ole32.dll, oleaut32.dll, olepro32.dll, and rpcrt4.dll have all been installed.
Can anyone explain whether or not dcom98.exe has been correctly installed??

Assuming that dcom98 was correctly installed, I proceeded to the "wine regedit" command to set the Owner and Organization.  I have no knowledge of the registry and would appreciate someone giving me explicit commands to type in to do this.  The instructions given assume an understanding of the registry that I lack.

Just to see if Office 97 would install even though I messed up 2 steps I put my CD in the drive and executed 'wine setup.exe.  Here is the terminal listing showing no success.  Can anyone explain if the failure was due to failed earlier steps or to something quite different:

ralph at ralph-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ ls
Aamsstp       Cdonline      odbccp32.dll  Off97Pro.inf  ofs97_01.ico  Setup.lst
Acme.exe      Clipart       odbcint.dll   off97pro.pdf  OS            Setup.tdf
acmsetup.exe  ffast_bb.dll  odbckey.inf   Off97Pro.STF  Queries       Sounds
acmsetup.hlp  msacccah.dll  odbcstf.dll   offclean.dll  rnscln97.opc  srvpack
autorun       mssetup.dll   of97spec.ini  offcln97.opc  selfreg.dll   Template
autorun.inf   msvcrt20.dll  off97_bb.dll  Office        setup.exe     ValuPack
Books         msvcrt40.dll  off97inv.dll  offsetup.ttf  Setup.ini
ralph at ralph-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ wine setup.exe
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/media/cdrom0', starting in the Windows directory.
err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code 1703
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found
ralph at ralph-laptop:/media/cdrom0$ 


As I am very much a newbie any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Ralph