[SLUG] Win4Lin problem
The school where SHMBO teaches has decided to replace WordPerfect with Office 2000 so I am trying to install it under Win4Lin. The computer is running SuSE 6.4 with a Win4Lin kernel. The hard drive has just 4 primary partitions:- /dev/hda1 is a DOS partition of about 30MB (not mounted under linux) /dev/hda2 is a small linux partition /boot /dev/hda3 is the linux swap partition /dev/hda4 is the main linux partition / there is a 3.5" floppy drive and the CDROM is a slave on the second ide controller i.e. /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdd. There is currently no hard drive connected as a slave to the first ide controller or as a master on the second. I have installed Windows95 (OSR2) under Win4Lin and now want to install some of Office 2000 but the CDROM seems to be unavailable. Windows Explorer shows an A:\, B:\, C:\, J:\ and N:\ drive but if you click on the CDROM (N:\) you get a dialog box which says "N:\ is not accessible The device is not ready" This is similar to the message you get if you try to access the (non existant) B:\ drive. The result is the same whether the CDROM is mounted or unmounted under linux. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this? TIA, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin problem
I have installed Windows95 (OSR2) under Win4Lin and now want to install some of Office 2000 but the CDROM seems to be unavailable. Windows Explorer shows an A:\, B:\, C:\, J:\ and N:\ drive but if you click on the CDROM (N:\) you get a dialog box which says "N:\ is not accessible The device is not ready" This is similar to the message you get if you try to access the (non existant) B:\ drive. The result is the same whether the CDROM is mounted or unmounted under linux. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this? Check perms on your cdrom device make sure the user running win4lin can read the cdrom device. mouting it makes no difference in win4lin basically windoze is reading from the almost raw device Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Win4Lin problem
The school where SHMBO teaches has decided to replace WordPerfect with Office 2000 so I am trying to install it under Win4Lin. CDROM problems aside, i'm pretty sure office2k requires IE5 or at least most of it. Can win4lin handle that? If it can, im sold :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin problem
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:18:41PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: The school where SHMBO teaches has decided to replace WordPerfect with Office 2000 so I am trying to install it under Win4Lin. CDROM problems aside, i'm pretty sure office2k requires IE5 or at least most of it. Can win4lin handle that? If it can, im sold :) Yep! We're running IE5.something-or-other with Win95 in Win4Lin here. The GF needs it for an online training program that relies on Windows-only plugins. Cheers, Peter PGP signature
