RE: using a windows installation

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I have win98... what about the windows registry files how do I use those
with winee?

Jason Tesser said:
> Can this be done if you install xp or 2k on a fat32 partition??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nosp [mailto:nosp@xades.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 7:05 PM
> To: anijap@execulink.com
> Cc: Dan Adams; Ivan Leo Murray-Smith; wine
> Subject: Re: using a windows installation
>
>
> You can certainly install an app under windows (non-NTFS: win98, others)
> and then boot into linux, mount the windows drive & point wine at it,
> and try to use wine to run the app.  If you have a problem with the
> installer under wine then that might be your next step.
>
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:43, anijap@execulink.com wrote:
>> I'd be very interested in that too.
>>
>> I wonder, is it possible to do this?
>> - You boot windows; install the application (thus creating all the
>> nessesary registeries and dll's).
>> - Reboot with linux, and run that application under wine.
>>
>> I always wanted to do that and I wonder if it's possible.
>>
>> It's not only about the registeries and dll's. I'm forced to use windows
>> from time to time so it would be nice that I can install only one copy
>> of
>> the application and be able to run it in linux (and saving some disk
>> space
>> in the process)
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan Adams said:
>> > Well, I have an old win98 se disc. Is there a way that I could install
>> > that somewhere and then use that? What is the advantage to having a
>> real
>> > registry? And cant you just copy over the dlls and fonts somewhere?
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:01, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
>> >> Use a fake one. Using a real one allows you to use original microsoft
>> >> dlls,
>> >> fonts and registry, but you can't do that if your windows os is read
>> >> only. Also,
>> >> wine only works well with windows 95/98/me, so using a fake
>> installation
>> >> is the
>> >> best option for you.
>> >>
>> >>
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