On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:10 -0500, JustZisGuy wrote: > And I did try installing it to a FAT partition from Wine, but that > didn't help as the installer still thought it was NTFS and tried to > set the permissions anyway. > Still thinking slightly out of the box, there might be other ways round this. Oracle itself is available as a Linux port: I've used it there via JBDC from a Java application running under XP but I don't understand the structure of the Oracle installation packages or how you want to use it, so take the following with sa grain of salt. How about installing Oracle for Linux and configuring it as you would on a remote server. Then install just the client-side bits under Wine. They can talk to the Oracle DB server via Linux's internal localhost network. If the Client1 package is just the libraries that implement Oracle's native client interface you should be able to install them on Windows without the rest of Oracle: after all thats the setup when the client is a Windows application. So, what happens if you try to install just the Windows Client1 package under Wine? This should also work if you're using ODBC rather than the native interface. Martin
