Wine off a LiveUSB

Bruni · Post by **Bruni** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:34 pm

I created an article at the Wine Wiki. Is such an idea worthwhile? In my view, this makes sense in case you have no Linux installed on your HDD, but running Wine from Git is needed.
http://wiki.winehq.org/RunningWinefromGitOffALiveUSB
Feel free to remove my article if you found it unneeded.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:15 am

Good effort! A bit too specific perhaps, you seem to be targeting KNOPPIX specifically, when there's so many distros.

Some of the inctructions are basically duplicated from instructions found elsewhere - like compiling from Git. It is recommended that in those sections, you link to the appropriate Wiki articles instead.

Also, consider that from here on, you'll need to maintain the instructions all by yourself. That includes when something changes and the instructions break. It wouldn't look good if instructions on the official site were to be wrong...

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:01 pm

I just use usb-creator to copy the files out of a Ubuntu or Ubuntu-like live installer iso onto a thumb drive and create a persistence file for me. Then I go in and clean up shop by installing GRUB2 to the track0 (and lately I've been playing with EFI), get grub.cfg how I want it, put other stuff in, etc. Then I boot into the Linux mentioned above, install wine via add-apt-repository and apt-get, and volia, I have WINE on a bootable thumb drive. In fact, I have a 32-bit partition and a 64-bit partition.
My way sounds a lot easier than yours, but yours probably has more options. You can still install WINE from source in "my way".

Cheers,
Jake