Hey all. I have an interesting one here. I'm running wine under FreeBSD, not the linux-emulation version, but the native version. I never had a Windows installation to work with though, and the best I could do was run freecell. Pretty cool from a proof of concept point, but not really worth the effort in itself. What I'm trying to do now is take a spare hard drive and install Windows 2000 in an NTFS partition on it, then mount that into the FreeBSD system. My first bout with the wine docs implied that having a real installation with all the native libs would make a lot of it quite a bit smoother. Now, I know there's a commercial product that will allow Office 2K to run under Linux (and therefore, probably FreeBSD), but I don't really want Office, just Word and Excel. Anyone know if there are any caveats to this? Where would one go to get the step by step process of doing this once the install is available? TIA Lou
I tried so many times, and I tried so hard ... With some people it seems to work perfectly, with some people it doesn't work at all. I don't think there is one good walkthrough Anyway Finally I purchased the 'commercial product' as you mentioned it. First I didn't like they were making money out of a GPL-project but yeah, what would you do :-) Anyway, I'm really satisfied with the 'commercial product', at least so far. I just installed it today, and didn't try any tricky things yet. The basic functionality is working. So I suppose it's worth it's money Even MS Access and MS Outlook do their thing, although there are a couple minor strange things in it. Only thing I have problems with is IE. But who needs IE on Linux ? :-) (I do :/ ) Anyway If you were thinking about the 'commercial product', and you can't find a decent solution I should say, give it a try I think I'v read on the 'commercial product's' website they offer a complete refund when you're not satisfied. wow, I actually replied in a newsgroup :-) btw guys, thanks for all the help ! Greetings, Steven -----Original Message----- From: wine-users-admin@winehq.com [mailto:wine-users-admin@winehq.com]On Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc Sent: donderdag 13 maart 2003 18:28 To: wine-users@winehq.com Subject: Office apps (Word and Excel) questions Hey all. I have an interesting one here. I'm running wine under FreeBSD, not the linux-emulation version, but the native version. I never had a Windows installation to work with though, and the best I could do was run freecell. Pretty cool from a proof of concept point, but not really worth the effort in itself. What I'm trying to do now is take a spare hard drive and install Windows 2000 in an NTFS partition on it, then mount that into the FreeBSD system. My first bout with the wine docs implied that having a real installation with all the native libs would make a lot of it quite a bit smoother. Now, I know there's a commercial product that will allow Office 2K to run under Linux (and therefore, probably FreeBSD), but I don't really want Office, just Word and Excel. Anyone know if there are any caveats to this? Where would one go to get the step by step process of doing this once the install is available? TIA Lou _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
El jue, 13 de 03 de 2003 a las 14:27, Louis LeBlanc escribi?:> Hey all. I have an interesting one here. > > I'm running wine under FreeBSD, not the linux-emulation version, but > the native version. I never had a Windows installation to work with > though, and the best I could do was run freecell. Pretty cool from a > proof of concept point, but not really worth the effort in itself. > > What I'm trying to do now is take a spare hard drive and install > Windows 2000 in an NTFS partition on it, then mount that into the > FreeBSD system. My first bout with the wine docs implied that having > a real installation with all the native libs would make a lot of it > quite a bit smoother.I suggest you don't install on an NTFS. unix doesn't support writing to NTFS ( i don't know about free bsd, but I think it's the same) and there could be some problems (windows doesn't like when other write their partitions)> > Now, I know there's a commercial product that will allow Office 2K to > run under Linux (and therefore, probably FreeBSD), but I don't really > want Office, just Word and Excel. Anyone know if there are any > caveats to this? Where would one go to get the step by step process > of doing this once the install is available? > > TIA > > Lou > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users-- Alan Bort Linux Registered User 298277 -Country Manager- [http://counter.li.org] http://www.linuxquestions.org Ciccio.-