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Running windows application on linux distro

38141 · 2007-04-11 09:25:43

I've recently started using Puppy linux on a machine with 128M RAM, 10GB hard drive, pentium III. It's been working fine and now I would like to get a software application distributed by a stockbroker to work with it. Tech support there have told me that 'it doesn't work with linux'. However, I understand that there is an…

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#32 19-04-2007 08:02PM

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On the HD install, I moved the wine app to /.

Then I rebooted from CD and couldn't find the wine app anywhere. Even did a search using pfind and gtkfind.

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#33 19-04-2007 10:48PM

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You wouldn't find it using those tools because it's not mounted.
It's like it's on a different disk that's not connected.

The idea is for the CD to be able to find it while booting,
not afterwards.

Can you confirm that the wine app you moved to /
is called Wine-0.9.22_210.sfs?

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#34 22-04-2007 10:18PM

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Yes I checked it and that is exactly what it's called in /

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