Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

[Mr Chris Aitken]

I have an old boxed "Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia". The box 
boasts, "System Requirements for UNIX: Solaris, SunOS, SGI, DEC, Alpha, 
AIX, Linux, BSD, SCO, X Windows, 8 MB RAM, 6MB Hard Disk space, CD ROM"

I thought I'd try installing it. However, there are no instructions fro 
installing on LInux. THe instructions are all for installing on the 
other supported OS: OS/2WARP.

I installed wine with 'sudo apt-get install wine' and that went okay. I 
went into the CD and right-clicked install.exe > Open With Other 
Application ... > Wine Windows Program Loader. A terminal opened briefly 
then ... nothing. I also tried the same thing with the only other two 
.exe files (dux.exe and chk4dll.exe) with the same result).

I also tried:

chris at cpc:~$ sudo wine /media/cdrom0/install.exe
wine: /home/chris/.wine is not owned by you
chris at cpc:~$ su
Password:
root at cpc:/home/chris# wine /media/cdrom0/install.exe
wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated.
Sorry, Z:\media\cdrom0\install.exe is an OS/2 linear executable (LX) file!
winevdm: can't exec 'Z:\media\cdrom0\install.exe': error=12
root at cpc:/home/chris#

I think I better stop now. If I don't try enough I'm a slacker. If I try 
too much I'm thrashing.

Oh, yeah, here's my distro:

root at cpc:/home/chris# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.04.2 \n \l


;/

 Any ideas?

Chris

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists