I want to dual-boot Linux on wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. She loves a card
came called Spider Solitare which comes with WinXP. (Wife is disabled and
computer games help her "cope" with the pain and being less mobile than the
rest of us.)

Did some research (so I don't get the crap beaten out of me again :-)).

I found this on the Debian site:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/spider

I assume this is a Debian package. Or is it source? Anyway, is it possible to
compile this and get it to work on Slack 9.1 without being a guru? (I looked
for a Spider package in LinuxPackages but there isn't one.)

BTW, does anyone know what file system XP uses??? fat32 or is it ntfs? How can
you tell (in XP). Will QTparted work on ntfs?

Thanks,
Al

> I found this on the Debian site:
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/spider
>
> I assume this is a Debian package. Or is it source?

It is Debian package.

> Anyway, is it possible to
> compile this and get it to work on Slack 9.1 without being a guru? (I looked
> for a Spider package in LinuxPackages but there isn't one.)

Yes, get alien package from linuxpackages. Alien converts among various
types packages including .deb and .tgz. If that fails you can always
compile from soruce.


> BTW, does anyone know what file system XP uses??? fat32 or is it ntfs? How can
> you tell (in XP). Will QTparted work on ntfs?

It uses ntfs. About QTparted, never tried it.

--
Sandro Mangovski

On Sun, 09 May 2004 11:26:53 -0700, A-B C. wrote:

> I want to dual-boot Linux on wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. She loves a card
> came called Spider Solitare which comes with WinXP. (Wife is disabled and
> computer games help her "cope" with the pain and being less mobile than the
> rest of us.)
>
> Did some research (so I don't get the crap beaten out of me again :-)).
>
> I found this on the Debian site:
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/spider
>
> I assume this is a Debian package. Or is it source? Anyway, is it possible to
> compile this and get it to work on Slack 9.1 without being a guru? (I looked
> for a Spider package in LinuxPackages but there isn't one.)
>
> BTW, does anyone know what file system XP uses??? fat32 or is it ntfs? How can
> you tell (in XP). Will QTparted work on ntfs?

There is a solitaire game called 'xpat2' that includes 16 different
solitaire games, one of which is spider. It's an X application and the
sources are still findable. If you can't find them, I have them, and also
a tgz file you can install.

(when I say X application above I mean it was written with XLIB and will
run on any desktop)

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On 2004-05-09, A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:

> I want to dual-boot Linux on wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. She loves a card
> came called Spider Solitare which comes with WinXP. (Wife is disabled and
> computer games help her "cope" with the pain and being less mobile than the
> rest of us.)

Slackware comes with a couple of versions of spider solitaire. One is in
the xgames package and one comes with Gnome. They seem to work like the
Microsoft version. You don't have to struggle with getting a .deb
package to install spider on Slack.

You might want to try Pysol (http://www.pysol.org). It's written in
python. Runs in any distribution. It has several Spider variations. If you
install the sound server with it it plays music while you play...

The WinXP file system is ntfs, I believe.

On Sun, 09 May 2004 11:26:53 -0700, A-B C. wrote:

> I want to dual-boot Linux on wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. She loves a card
> came called Spider Solitare which comes with WinXP. (Wife is disabled and
> computer games help her "cope" with the pain and being less mobile than the
> rest of us.)
>
> Did some research (so I don't get the crap beaten out of me again :-)).
>
> I found this on the Debian site:
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/spider
>
> I assume this is a Debian package. Or is it source? Anyway, is it possible to
> compile this and get it to work on Slack 9.1 without being a guru? (I looked
> for a Spider package in LinuxPackages but there isn't one.)
>
> BTW, does anyone know what file system XP uses??? fat32 or is it ntfs? How can
> you tell (in XP). Will QTparted work on ntfs?
>
> Thanks,
> Al

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On Sun, 09 May 2004 11:26:53 -0700, A-B wrote:
> I want to dual-boot Linux on wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. She loves a card
> came called Spider Solitare which comes with WinXP. (Wife is disabled and
> computer games help her "cope" with the pain and being less mobile than the
> rest of us.)
>

I must second Ed's recommendation for Pysol. It is much better than the
Windows version of Spider Solitaire, plus it has about 300 other
versions of solitaire. It also has unlimited Undo, multiple bookmarks of
position, etc. Great time waster! :-)

The latest version (4.82) seems to have lost the best cardset (IMHO)
there is a great cardset named 'Standard' in v4.81 that in my opinion is
much easier on the eyes.

Brad



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Ed LaBonte wrote:

> The WinXP file system is ntfs, I believe.

with one exception of upgrading to xp from earlier versions of windows on an
existing PC; the upgraded (as opposed to OEM installed) version would be
fat32.

William Hamblen wrote:

> On 2004-05-09, A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to dual-boot Linux on wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. She loves a
>> card came called Spider Solitare which comes with WinXP. (Wife is disabled
>> and computer games help her "cope" with the pain and being less mobile than
>> the rest of us.)
>
> Slackware comes with a couple of versions of spider solitaire. One is in
> the xgames package and one comes with Gnome. They seem to work like the
> Microsoft version. You don't have to struggle with getting a .deb
> package to install spider on Slack.


Hmm. I have the KDE games and while there are a bunch of solitare games, I
don't see one that is "Spider." I also have gnome loaded but have never
booted to it. Can I run the Gnome game under KDE? Some Gnome apps are runable
under KDE. Where ARE the Gnome games located?

Al

On Sun, 09 May 2004 21:13:47 +0000, SuperDaemon wrote:
>> The WinXP file system is ntfs, I believe.
>
> with one exception of upgrading to xp from earlier versions of windows on an
> existing PC; the upgraded (as opposed to OEM installed) version would be
> fat32.

Are you not able to select the filesystem type when installing XP?
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On Sun, 09 May 2004 16:44:27 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote:


> Are you not able to select the filesystem type when installing XP?

Yep, but I believe the default (and reccomended, unless you're installing
with Linux compatibility in mind) is ntfs