"James" == James Liggett jrliggett@cox.net writes:
James> Hi Uwe, I figured out how to install Palm Desktop, perhaps this James> might prove useful to someone:
James> 1. Install native Windows Installer manually. To do this, install James> dcom98 first. Then run instmsia.exe. The install will complain, James> but it will leave behind all the files you need in James> Windows\Installer\InstMsi0. Copy all the files in there to James> Windows\system, and set msi.dll and msiexec.exe to native.
James> 2. Install Windows Script 5.6. You can download it from here: James> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a8a18f6-249c-4a72-... James> Keep in mind that it's the English version though. To install it, James> set setupapi to builtin and run the file.
This is what winetools does too...
James> 3. Run Palm Desktop setup like normal, and it will install James> everything you need.
James> Of course, running palm desktop is a different story (there is a James> crash in WinMM that stops it from running.) I'm currently working What crash? There is a known problem with a broken mircoquill heap checking library http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/09/0193.html
James> on getting Hotsync to work with my USB cradle using the visor James> driver, but there's some problems with that. I'll post a dump of James> the messages I get and see if I can make something happen. Thanks James> for the help :).
While I see chances with a serial connection, USB has probably a long way to go.
Bye