[AccessD] Rescued Machine, now what?

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 06:15:42 CDT 2021


Enough memory to run a windows virtual machine on it?

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:16 AM Martin <martinreid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Again likely no. You could build a windows VM. Personally I would just use
> your Windows machine. Life's to short for this stuff.
>
> Martin
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2021, 23:48 Arthur Fuller, <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > After a couple of dozn attempts to rescue a lovely machine, turns out
> that
> > what worked was the latest install of Linux Mint 20.2. It worked when al
> > previous attempts failed.
> > The only other thing to make me the happy camper is to figure out how to
> > install Access 365 on this machine. I have it running on other boxeses so
> > it's non-critical, but this box is sooo pretty that I would love to make
> it
> > work there. I am acquainted eith Wine and so far it's been nothing but
> > trouble. Perhaps I'm too old for such stretches of the mind. Or perhaps
> > I've been misreading the instructions.
> > Goal Make Access 365 work on Linx Mint.
> > Steps:
> > 1. Try Wine. I don't understand it.
> > 2. Give up and just use the Windows-only box.
> >
> >
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