Hello Larry,
It is a grim day here, not only because of what has happened around our
country but also because of a win4lin installation problem. I am hoping
that you can help me with this problem. After the first step of the
installation, I am required to reboot. When I reboot, my machine comes to
the graphical login at which point I enter my username and password and hit
enter and I receive the following error: Startup program /etc/X11/xdm/Give
Console exited with non zero status. Click ok to retry. At this point it
takes me back to the graphical login and it starts all over. If you or
anyone else can help me to restore my system and let me finish this
installation, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you
Mike
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Running a windows program on a linux box
On 2001.09.08 21:37 Michael Klama wrote:
> I am trying to find a program that I can use to run a windows program
> on a
> Linux box. The program that I am trying to use is a 2-part program.
> Part
> 1, which will be loaded on the Linux machine is a server program,
> which will
> be accessed by the client end of the program, which will be loaded on
> a
> windows 98 box. I already have Samba configured and working and I
> also have
> IPMASQ up and running also so I will be able to access this server
> program
> from a remote location. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Mike
Others have commented on vmware -- I'm going to sugest 2 other options:
(1) Wine (http://www.winehq.org/). "Wine is an implementation of the
Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a
Windows compatibility layer." Advantages: free software, doesn't
require windows, runs many windows apps. Disadvantages: doesn't run all
windows apps, kind of slow, still a bit buggy. If you want to try wine,
I suggest you get it at: http://www.codeweavers.com/home/, their
implementation was easiest for me to configure.
(2) Win4Lin (http://www.netraverse.com/). WIn4Lin is a commercial
product, consisting of a patched kernel and some other stuff which
allows you to run a windows installation on you linux machine.
Advantages: good performance, good support and upgrade policies, can
download a trial version. Disadvantages: some cost involved, requires
windows, only runs win3.x/9x (doesn't run NT, etc).
I've used all 3 (wine, win4lin and vmware). Currently, I used win4lin
pretty much exlusively, due to it's better preformance (vs vmware),
better integration into the linux system (vs vmware) and it's ability to
run virtually all window apps that i've tried (vs wine, which is
unstable or even unusable with some apps). One possible advantage for
vmware -- windows runs in a virtual machine -- I'd guess it more closely
resembles a native windows environment.
I'd suggest you try all three (I think you can download a trial version
of vmware), and see which fits your needs best. Maybe try wine first,
since it is free/open and doesn't require a windows license.
--
Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch Med
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