Thanks, I'll try that. I blew away Mandrake and reinstalled 2k, so the immediate problem is gone. But now I have my kid's computer spread out all over the garage swapping hardware so I can put linux on it. Then I can Bash C headers and make depend ./hooya/blitz.kablooey-26.3.4 all day long without missing my apps.
I guess it's sorta like working on a car, make sure you got a second one that runs before you tear the first apart. Hmmm... now I'm gonna have a whole new batch of hardware issues to sort out. Brandon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] alternatives On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. > The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the > more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to > Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and > Counter-Strike. > > As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. > > Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying > different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. > It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time > trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put > Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. > > But that's not gonna cut it for long. > I want Linux as my base OS, and I have to be able to run Visio until > there's a nix equivalent that will handle Visio files flawlessly. > (Exporting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) > > I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 > decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common > issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > ~Brandon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I wanted to say something about this before, but constantly forget to do so - so I'll do it now. WINE wants to be an abstraction layer - a "clone", per se, so that Windows apps can run - right? SO, if you look in the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory, you see a rather bleak and bland SKELETON of Windows directories and the likes. Well, that didn't sit right with me - and wanting to run MYOB whilst in fave linux, I decided to hack WINE. First, I copied just about everything from my /mnt/hda1/windows directories right into the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory. Fonts, DLL's - you name it - I copied it there. I wanted to give Windows programs everything they asked for. I also dittoed the same with the "Program Files" subdirs, too. I dug through all the ini files and the WINE registry files to straighten out things that had been changed as well as point some "virtual dll's" to the real McCoy's...took a while, and took a fair bit of experimenting, but overall, now I can run native Windows applications in my linux world. Now my way was hacked/slashed - but from what I unnerstan...WineX is by far the better way to go...they've spent a good deal of time getting WINE "Game Playable" - which basically tells me that if you can run a game like UT2002 or HL under linux, running sniveling little MS wanna-be programs like Viso (only joking there) would be a snap. And mate, if I can live completely in a Window-less world (socially even) then so can you! -- Wed Dec 18 22:40:01 EST 2002 10:40pm up 5:32, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.20 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem.
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