On Wednesday 16 January 2002 04:20, you wrote: > Hello folks, > Well, I was more than disappointed to find that the WIN4LIN inclusion > in 8.1 wasn't real - just a demo. > Very poor PR on Mandrake's part to do that. It isn't an included > package - more like someone else's E-brochure. > > Anyone using Win4Lin or WINE out there able to tell me a little about > their experiences? > I need something to run FrontPage98 and Thumbsplus and with all the > complaints out there still, probably Word as well. :-( > I do have a copy of Wordperfect for Linux - any comments?
I use WP8 for Linux and it works perfectly--reads .doc files, no problem (why does word use .doc by default when rtf is just as good and retains all the Word format?). There is some setup stuff you should know about, and you may need the wp8filtrix patch, if you have the downloaded version of WP8. There is a pretty good thread with the gotchas (minor, you need to install ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.i586 (its on the 7.2 disk 1, if you have it), and libc5 on the mdk second disk (of 8.0 I think, probably on 8.1, too). > > I have M8.0 and was wondering if it was worth buying a std pak 8.1 > and HOPING to get a bit further than with 8.0 ..... Still have no > sound, no CD, lousy onscreen fonts. Control Panel>LookNFeel>Fonts and choose lucidatypewriter for Fixed Width--helvetica for all others. Did you run sndconfig from init3? Is your soundcard supported? If you have no CD, how did you install? Or do you mean a CDwriter isn't showing up? Lots of stuff on that! > > I am going to have to do a complete re-install anyway as I've lost > the SU/root password.............. :-( Actually, losing a password isn't the end of the world. I once did this myself, and it's fairly simple. reboot and type linux init=/bin/sh rw at the LILO prompt. This will boot into the non-protected root shell. GRUB requires you to hit the 'e' key twice and add init=/bin/sh rw to the boot command, the ENTER then 'b' to boot when the sytem is up type vi /etc/passwd The entry for root will look like this root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash If that is what you have hit ESC and then :wq! to exit vi. If not, change it to look like that Check permissions with ls -l /etc/passwd they should be -rw-r--r--. Run vi /etc/shadow The format will be [accountname]:[password]:[other stuff] e.g. root:$1$KODLG[etc]:10979:0:99999:7::: DELETE the password entry for "root" by moving the cursor to the first character of the password (usually $) and typing dw Now type wq! which will save the file. Now Run sync && mount -o remount,ro / which will write all buffer content to the disk and remount the partition read-only. Press CNTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. On the next login, type root for the account name and just hit the ENTER at the 'password' prompt. Type password to give 'root' a password. That's worked for me! e.
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