novice wrote: > > I have a dual boot using two separate hard disks. Win XP is installed on sda and Ubuntu 10.04 on sdb. I have installed WINE on sdb. > > Can I use WINE to install a device driver for Win XP from sdb without starting Win XP? > > Installers for hardware drivers usually crash in Wine, but even if they didn't, allowing Wine to write to a real Windows registry would render Windows inoperable. Wine stores its registry as a plain text file; Windows doesn't. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2
