SlyCat wrote: > Hello everyone of Wine. I have been an Ubuntu user for the past month or so now and I have very little experience with Wine. I originally started using the OS/app loader on a Sony Vaio NR110 laptop, but now I am the owner of an MSI Wind. > > I have my Wind dual booted (XP, Ubuntu) with the larger partition to ext3 for ubuntu's boot. Usuing about 1.3gb for swap too. I would like to start using Wine to keep my Windows apps (why else...) but I was wondering: > > -Can Windows XP, with the use of fsdriver to read ext3 filing, run a Windows app installed on ubuntu? > > I know that Wine from Ubuntu can't run apps from the Windows boot partition, but can Windows run apps from ubuntu's boot partition? I would just like to consider which partition to have most of my programs like Office. > It is not possible to do what you want. Windows will not execute a program located on a Linux partition, and it is not advised to run a program from Wine on Linux from a NTFS partition, mainly the Windows boot partition. To do what you request, you must install your program both under Windows in the NTFS/FAT partition and under Wine in a Linux partition. However, it may be possible, with the proper drivers and a really good backup of your data, to work with the same documents and data with both operating systems. James McKenzie
