I found the problem; it indeed was that /proc and /sys weren't mounted, and that the binfmt-support daemon wasn't started. I am remastering the Debian LiveCD for my own usage - I am not "intentionally breaking" my system. And I do understand what I'm doing (to a fair degree). ;) Now I'm left with this: Wine isn't invoked if the Win32 exe file has the executable permission set. Any ideas?