Re: Installing Palm Desktop

[James Liggett]

Thanks Chris, just submitted. Knew I was being stupid about it...

James

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:47 -0400, Chris Morgan wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about the reason.  If you run the app and are interested in 
> maintaining the howto and potentially responding to forum posts, thats more 
> than enough.  We put the reason question on there because otherwise its 
> difficult to tell apart the users that have the knowledge to help vs. the 
> ones that just want the application to work for them under wine.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tuesday 05 July 2005 10:19 pm, James Liggett wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
> > This is Desktop 4.1 that came with my Tungsten T. I've considered
> > becoming a maintainer for the app, but being the extremely neurotic
> > perfectionist I am, I've yet to decide what exactly my "reason" for
> > becoming a maintainer will be, but I will be putting in the request
> > eventually.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > James Liggett
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:42 -0600, Tony Lambregts wrote:
> > > James Liggett wrote:
> > > > Hi Uwe,
> > > > I figured out how to install Palm Desktop, perhaps this might prove
> > > > useful to someone:
> > > > - Install native Windows Installer manually. To do this, install
> > > >
> > > > dcom98 first. Then run instmsia.exe. The install will complain, but it
> > > > will leave behind all the files you need in Windows\Installer\InstMsi0.
> > > > Copy all the files in there to Windows\system, and set msi.dll and
> > > > msiexec.exe to native.
> > > > - Install Windows Script 5.6. You can download it from here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a8a18f6-249c-
> > > > 4a72-bfcf-fc6af26dc390&DisplayLang=en Keep in mind that it's the English
> > > > version though. To install it, set setupapi to builtin and run the
> > > > file.
> > > > - Run Palm Desktop setup like normal, and it will install everything
> > > >
> > > > you need.
> > > >
> > > > Of course, running palm desktop is a different story (there is a crash
> > > > in WinMM that stops it from running.) I'm currently working on getting
> > > > Hotsync to work with my USB cradle using the visor driver, but there's
> > > > some problems with that. I'll post a dump of the messages I get and see
> > > > if I can make something happen. Thanks for the help :).
> > >
> > > What version of Palm Desktop is this? This would make a great howto, I
> > > would add it to the proper version myself if I knew the version.
> > >
> > > Please consider becoming a maintainer for this app.
> > >
> > > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=688
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Tony Lambregts