scot
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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,23:35 |
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no internet access on the laptop is not too difficult to surmount. Just visit the 'downloads' section of the DSL website, choose a server, and browse the /mydsl directories. It's a little cumbersome, since any given app may be in one of 3-4 different places (a 'networking' app could show up under 'apps' or under 'networking' or under 'uci' or 'unc', for example). Then download and get them to the laptop by some means, putting them into a top-level /mydsl or /mydsl/optional on one of your partitions. Point DSL there with the boot option mydsl=hda2 (or whatever).
Assuming your .tar.gz of wine is a DSL extension, try that. Those made-for-DSL extensions are nearly always better than the more generic .deb packages. If the .tar.gz is a generic source or binary tarball, then get one of the DSL packages.
Once you have the thing loaded, just do
/path/to/wine /path/to/windows-app
and it does a reasonable job of setting itself up, making a pseudo windows directory in your home dir. You may need to add some fonts to it, or possibly symlink to your windows fonts (It'll need to see the basic TTF's )
Of course it's hit-and-miss with windows apps. People do run quite complex things with wine, but it does depend on just *how* the application is complex.
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