Knoppix comes with wine, so you can try:
wine <program>.exe
and see if it works. It probably won't though, unless it is something simple like notepad or the calculator.
does anyone know if you can run windows bassed programs from a hard drive like a .exe file
Knoppix comes with wine, so you can try:
wine <program>.exe
and see if it works. It probably won't though, unless it is something simple like notepad or the calculator.

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