Using a CD with Wine means navigating the disk from the Ubuntu desktop
using Nautilus and finding the appropriate installation file, usually setup.exe,
but not always. You can't always count of the CD to auto open as in Windows.
As i recall i managed to get that far but somehow the CD seemed to
lock up and it couldn't install files.

> Wine also has different "bottles" to experiment with. I guess it is a play on
the name, Wine. There is the Win98 bottle, Win2000 bottle, etc. You may get
better results with using the appropriate one for your vintage programme. Good
luck in finding what you need.
I chose the win98 i remember. But then with new releases i reckoned it
wasn't worth it. I've decided on being an April updater with ubuntu.
Annually i reckon is about right to keep up with advances but not too
frequent with setting everything up again. I keep all data on remote
drive now. I found dual booting wasn't that bad with a second hard
drive as slave containing winblows. That way i just install the new
ubuntu release to the master and it sets up grub appropriately. I'll
try wine again on my spare machine shortly. Xmind is pretty good from
what i've done so far today - thanks.

> What level of education are you involved in? I was a teacher for 30 years.
Well i was an engineer in the oil industry when i graduated with an
engineering degree. When the industry took a 'nose dive' i went into
teaching first in a college, and then into schools to teach maths.
Thoroughly enjoyed it and when my father died in 2007 i went to look
after my mother who has Alzheimers. I had an idea for online maths
tuition and got interested in linux with a view to setting up a
business. But my mother takes up so much time i don't really spend
enough time getting it going.

My four legged friends keep me busy too
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