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. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> wine-users mailing list >> >> wine-users@winehq.com >> >> http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > wine-users mailing list >> > wine-users@winehq.com >> > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wine-users mailing list >> wine-users@winehq.com >> http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
