wine users - Oct 2003 - using a windows installation

First I would like to say how proud of and thankful to all the people
who help out with wine.  Its a great project and a lifesaver for
everyone trying to get away from being tied to windows. With that being
said ... (i just got photoshop 7 working yesterday so i'm still pretty
elated)

Ok. I am dual booting and have a win2k installation on another partition
mounted at /mnt/win.  It is ntfs so it is read only.  What does it mean
to "use a real installation" rather than using a fake one. Can I even
do
this because its readonly?  How could I use the real installation to
perhaps make my wine install a little more robust? Thanks again.

- dan

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.

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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>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.
If you have NTFS, linux can read it, so you can install the app on windows, and
copy the installation directory over to the fake windows installation. The
registry shouldn't be a problem, most programs work even if you don't
copy the
registry entries.

> yes but if you install winxp on fat that should work also right???
It's always better to not use wine with  winxp (xp dlls don't work well
with
wine), but it is possible.