PureWinLin - Linux emulated on Windows via QEMU

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:14 am

As promised... a small app to install the full version of PureBasic for PureWinLin (should work with any version of Linux though).

Steps:

- Download the full version of PureBasic from the user area on the main site.
- Download the installer: pbinstaller.pbe (56k)

- Open a terminal and make the installer executeable:

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 chmod +x pbinstaller.pbe

- Change to root user (password: pbroot):

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 su root

- Execute the installer:

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 ./pbinstaller.pbe

Just load your PureBasic file and install. BTW: the installation will delete your IDE preferences file.

-Beach

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:25 am

Gansta93 wrote:The consol is not accessible too... so Pure on Linux is not for me..

Sorry that interface will not jive with QEMU... Have you tried the CoLinux version? It is a bit more difficult but your interface might be able to work with it. Also, you can connect to the virtual PC with various other Windows based terminals like PuTTY and Tera Term Pro (both freeware).

Anything I can do to help, just let me know.

-Beach

Gansta93 · Post by **Gansta93** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:40 am

Oh my god...

I am a beginer in Linux: I going to reread this post and sirch for CoLinux... can you explain some please?

Sory for thes questions whish can be stupid. :oops And thanks again for your help.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:47 am

why arent you just using the terminal?

Gansta93 · Post by **Gansta93** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:51 am

Oops, I am on Windows 98... I'm so unlucky.

Thanks again for helps.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:44 pm

This deserves a bump

Beach!!! Any updates or anything concerning this distro?

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:40 pm

Thanks Shannara. Debian is still current at 3.1 - the only thing that has been updated is QEMU which is version 7.2 now. I am open to suggestions for additional features though.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:52 pm

I donno yet really

Im going to retry the mount, here in a moment ...

Newest version of QEMU can be found @ http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

0.7.2 is the newest with a few changes.

Well,. 0.7.2 is actually a step backwards w/o Klox's mods, so im using Klox's kqemu

Anyways, for those of you who do not know, Fred posted up a Debian version of the Purebasic package

This is very sweet for those of us using PureWinLin!! Big thanks to Fred! ... Except it doesnt install in PureWinLin ... posting in bug forum.

Beach! How do we have PureWinLin automatically mount a windows shared folder? You already provided the script to do so, but it only lasts for that session. How do you make a script autorun on login or whatever?

Here's another one Beach. About every 5 minutes, the purebasic IDE (registered) automatically closes with no message, nothing. It happens on the dot, every 5 minutes no matter what your doing. This makes it impossible to do any work because every 5 minutes, the IDE shuts down. I dont know if this is an IDE bug, or a problem with the distribution.

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:52 am

QEMU 0.7.2

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:32 pm

KarLKoX wrote:QEMU 0.7.2

I'm missing mgwz.dll, where can I get that?

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:03 pm

The archive was uploaded ... along with the missing fmod dll

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:25 am

Thank you for the update! Working quite nicely, very nicely in fact

I have a Q .. since Beach seems to be MIA ATM ... maybe exams, eh?

Do you know how to have his mount script run everytime (automatically) when booting?

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:20 am

You can call the script from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:15 pm

Is it possible to print from within QEMU? I am not having any luck so far, and with PureWinLin, I can't seem to find a printer setup or anything? Also, no docs regarding printing on the QEMU website either.

Thanks.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:50 am

@Shannara : Sorry mate, missed the question. KarLKoX has the right idea adding it to the "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file. You can not use "/etc/fstab" since Samba is not loaded until later in the boot sequence (not that you did that, just FYI).

@KarLKoX : S w e e t !

@Straker : I'm not sure QEMU supports LPT based printing. However, I was able to print using Cups and Samba. I will list the steps below:

- Log in as root to load all the required applications and configure them (root password is 'pbroot')

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# su root
# apt-get update
# apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client foomatic-bin gs-esp a2ps smbclient
# ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
# /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

- Open FireFox and go to: http://localhost:631/printers/
- Click "Add Printer" and give the new printer a name (any name works here)
- Scroll to the botton of choices for "Device:" type and select "Windows Printer via SAMBA"
- Add the device URI for your windows printer. The URI must contain a valid user name, password, and a shared printer which is on the Windows host. I created a user called 'WinLin' and made the password 'linux'. Here is an example URI:

smb://WinLin:linux@192.168.1.10/hp

- Next you will need to select a printer driver. There are not many to choose from, I have a HP LaserJet so mine was easy.

If all goes well, you should now be able to print.