I've tried that already and it doesn't work. I think what Firefox does is start an IExplorer.exe session in addition to its own and puts it in a tab. I've only been able to do that under Windows.

Moreover, this would not be an IExplorer.exe session but using that commonly used Internet Explorer ActiveX control. That means, even if one had IE running through Wine, it wouldn't work with Firefox, as Firefox wouldn't use Wine to host that ActiveX control.

Robert- can I get you to explain that step-by-step, or am I being too much of a noob?

Actually, the only version of Windoze I have that's installable is in a 3-year old HP Pavilion bundle. But if that's on its own partition, that should work, right? If not, please ignore the rest of this.

I understand you to be saying here that Windoze can be installed on another partition, and opened using VMWare Player. HOw do I access the repository that that is in, so that I can download it?

Is it possible to create an image file of my present configuration of Ubuntu, and load that onto the hard drive that Windoze is presently on, even if it means reinstalling HP Pavilion on a partition?

Or is all that too noobish?

Sounds like being OEM software (like a rescue disk), being tailored exactly to your (ancient) hardware.

At any rate, you'll need a "original" Windows install CD, that can be installed on any computer, not just your model.
I don't know if your CD has a cover. If it has, there should be no "HP Pavilion" logo on it, but only Microsoft and Windows logos. Else it is an OEM CD, which you can only use with the original model.

The hardware sellers bait you, "Windows pre-installed", and you pay for that. - But actually, you can't take your (paid) Windows copy over to another computer of yours (i.e., you've bought a new one), and I feel that's cheating.

- I'll hope you'll never come along again (in the future) with those crippled OEM "Windows" CDs. They are crippled, and don't work on other computers, nor on Virtual Machines (*probably*, you might try..., but I think this probably won't work out).

- After all, you're probably going to need an original Windows CD, that installs on any computer, not just your model.

Please make sure that your "Windows CD" is not just a HP Pavilion "Recovery CD", first...

Thanks

I think I'm getting close to working this out for myself. On "Frank's Corner", http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=qa , I found the command wineconfig , typed it into the terminal, and out jumped a configuration window. Now it wants me to "Add application" under "Windows 2000". What I'm trying to install is Office XP professional, so I'm going to copy that cd to a file like the desktop or something, and see if I can access and install it.

Robert? Am I on the right track?

OK, now I have copied the Office XP CD onto a folder on the desktop, and I see an executable in it, SETUP.EXE. I'm guessing I need a command line to run that EXE and install Office XP.

Hey, while you're welcome, I'm only some damn newbie, too! (And I'm wayyy tired, unfortunately - don't take it personally.) -
What about
Running setup.exe that way would probably create new files and folder within your home folder, that were executable by using Wine. I.e., there might be a file "Word.exe" (or similar) after setup succeeded.

- Sorry, I'm really watching this from a kind of meta perspective, as I've never installed Office on Linux/Wine, yet.
It's just that - from my understanding - it might work that way: "wine /path/to/your-windows.exe"

I think you're just a couple of steps ahead of me. I copied the CD to a folder named Office XP Professional on the desktop. The .exe is inside that folder.

So I just need to know how to run that command in the terminal.

By the same token, I just reinstalled Office XP with the demo version of Crossover, so I have time to figure this out.

Robbbert,
How do you reccommend a newbie do this? (Perhaps "newbie" would be too advanced for me...) -Can't seem to find a way for k3b to do it, and can't find an adequate explanation of what dd is or does that doesn't scare the #e[[ out of me.

I have just ONE win-based software I MUST have; VMWare could help me jump ship to Kubuntu entirely.

Thanks,
Vin¢

dd means "disk duplicate", and it's a bit more than unlikely that it will crash anything.

Ah come on, you'll be a *whew* real Linux geek once you've created your first .ISO from a terminal command - got to be proud!