How I cloned a Wine installation into an sfs file
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2013, 19:27
All of this was done on Lucid 528.
I used http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 994#635994 as the source of Wine.
What I did was install wine 1.4.1 as an sfs file Then I opened up winfiler and let it go through its install routine (let it download the Gecko stuff, not sure exactly where that went). Then, I installed Audible Manager. Then, I made a .sfs file out of the /root/.wine directory that wine had created when it installed..
Then, on a fresh (no wine ever installed) copy, I just loaded the wine 1.4.1 sfs and the /root/.wine sfs.
And believe it or not, it seems to work flawlessly both on my remastered Lucid and regular boot without a savefile lucid. Hardly any wine related stuff ends up in the save file. Audible works. Wine seems to work in general although I haven't tested it a lot.
edit - the sfs files seem to work on Precise 5.4.x.7 too.
edit again the next day - It seems I am able to put the root/.wine directory into a copy of the main Wine sfs file using the edit SFS program and to install more programs and "remaster" it after adding them (got the borders book ereader working too).
I don't think I can just give away the sfs with Audible and Borders Books on it because of copyright reasons, but I think sometime over the next few weeks I'll pick a few open source or free to share windows games and make an sfs and put it on dropbox for people to check out. It seems the best way to run Wine that I know of (unless I am missing some downside).
I used http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 994#635994 as the source of Wine.
What I did was install wine 1.4.1 as an sfs file Then I opened up winfiler and let it go through its install routine (let it download the Gecko stuff, not sure exactly where that went). Then, I installed Audible Manager. Then, I made a .sfs file out of the /root/.wine directory that wine had created when it installed..
Then, on a fresh (no wine ever installed) copy, I just loaded the wine 1.4.1 sfs and the /root/.wine sfs.
And believe it or not, it seems to work flawlessly both on my remastered Lucid and regular boot without a savefile lucid. Hardly any wine related stuff ends up in the save file. Audible works. Wine seems to work in general although I haven't tested it a lot.
edit - the sfs files seem to work on Precise 5.4.x.7 too.
edit again the next day - It seems I am able to put the root/.wine directory into a copy of the main Wine sfs file using the edit SFS program and to install more programs and "remaster" it after adding them (got the borders book ereader working too).
I don't think I can just give away the sfs with Audible and Borders Books on it because of copyright reasons, but I think sometime over the next few weeks I'll pick a few open source or free to share windows games and make an sfs and put it on dropbox for people to check out. It seems the best way to run Wine that I know of (unless I am missing some downside).