i have heard some stories from some people who claim to have been able to set up a partition in linux and install win98 via wine and then having it fire up. i know wine isnt designed for this purpose but apparantly it has been done....who knows, maybe someone is pulling my leg. i'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has pulled this off and if so how did they go about doing it. i tried it by trying to set up a fake windows directory....ie /usr/win98 the copying the win98 cab files to this location and configuring an appropriate wine.conf file. however i wasnt able to get past the initial win98 intro screen. btw my partition was an ext3 filesystem or does /usr/win98 have to be a fat partition??...the guts of my config file is as follows...and im usuing redhat 7.2 with the latest wine 7.2 rpm it's no big deal.....but it be cool to stick it up some obnoxious windows users by having their pathetic little operating system running on my linux desktop for show :P [Drive A] "Path" = "/mnt/floppy" "Type" = "floppy" "Label" = "Floppy" "Serial" = "87654321" "Device" = "/dev/fd0" [Drive C] "Path" = "/usr/src/win98" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "WIN98" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive D] "Path" = "/mnt/cdrom" "Type" = "cdrom" "Label" = "CD-Rom" "Filesystem" = "win95" "Device" = "/dev/cdrom" [Drive E] "Path" = "/tmp" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "Tmp Drive" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive F] "Path" = "${HOME}" "Type" = "network" "Label" = "Home" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive Z] "Path" = "/" "Type" = "network" "Label" = "Root" "Filesystem" = "win95" [wine] "Windows" = "c:\\windows" "System" = "c:\\windows\\system" "Temp" = "c:\\windows\\temp" "Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;c:\\windows\\temp;" ;"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator" "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv" "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink" ------------ And now a word from our sponsor ------------------ Want to have instant messaging, and chat rooms, and discussion groups for your local users or business, you need dbabble! -- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_dbabble.htm ---- _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users