Jim Shaffer, Jr. wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:59:40 +1100, "Art Vandalay" <jkara@bf.rmit.edu.auz> wrote: > >>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. > > Well, for starters, it's common knowledge that running Explorer under Wine > trashes the Windows directory structure... So I doubt that anyone is running > the entirety of Windows under Wine. Besides which it is totally impossible to do this with Wine (read the Wine FAQ on www.winehq.com). Probably the alleged leg-puller is talking about VMWare, which is a commercial product for running Windows within Linux or Linux within Windows in a virtual machine. In this case you can actually install Windows (or any other OS) in the virtual machine. - Daniel -- ****************************************************************************** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * d.franklin@ieee.org ****************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
