similar to: wine and installed software on windows partition

Hi everybody! First at all, sorry for my bad english [Rolling Eyes] My problem is: How to install Windows running it from the cd using Wine. I know that it's ten thousand time easier to reboot my pc and install windows as usual but now it's a challenge for me and I hope you can help me :D I archieve to run the I386/winnt32.exe whit root permission and let him recognize the drive

I have windows XP X64 installed in the primary partition of my primary HD and later I installed Ubuntu in another partition in the same hard disk. Since then, ALWAYS, I have installed Wine in Ubuntu, when I reboot and try to boot Windows XP this has been corrupted (until I now Wine replaces explorer.exe from c:\windows directory) and Windows XP doesn't boot normally, I have to restore

I've just installed Wine 1.2 in Ubuntu Natty. The problem is I do not know how to run my programs already installed in my Windows XP. By the way, I've intalled Ubuntu on a different HD so that it doesn't touch the Windows installation. Any help guys... [Question]

Hi is it possible and yes how do I have to configure Wine to do it, to run the applications on existing Windows XP Professional partition? I am especially asking concerning Delphi 7, which would take me about a day to install on the Linux partition. Thanks, Rainer

I was wondering about the installation of wine. Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed. I have an external HD and was wondering if it was possible to install wine to run on it instead of my internal drive. secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.

Hello everybody, i got a question. Could it be possible to use an existing real windows 7 installation (on a separate partition) as a wineprefix and run programs from it?

Hello, I am running Ubuntu 8.04. off of an external HD. in the File Browser, Ubuntu sees the internal HD, and I can navigate to the Quicken executable. I installed wine and went into Configure it and clicked Add Application. I can see the Program Files folder, but when I go into it, all I can see is the Common Files and Internet Explorer folders. Why can't I see executables? How can I try

hi all, im starting in the linux world !! so this is my question : i wanna run 1app that is installed in my windows partition. the app im refering is world of warcraft, this game does not have any entry in the windows registry (on windows machines you can copy the wow folder from one hd to another hd on other computer and play without reinstall) so i think it must be possible to run the game

I'm planning my first Linux/Wine install. Is there any advantage to having a Windows (say W2K) partition to install Win apps to, when the plan is to run them under Wine/Linux? I do have a licensed copy of W2K, so I could do that if it were an advantage (e.g., is it easier to install difficult or unruly win apps under windows first?). Any other suggestions (I'm planning out my partition

So here, i looked a bit around the web on the subject and found: - That using wine such way can be damaging to the partition and/or windows it self. - That using original Windows DLLs can be quite helpful to some applications. As you can see results were sided, it seemed successful to some. My Idea was: - Through fstab, make the partition automatically mounted on /media/winxp (already) - Make a

Hi, i've mounted a NTFS-Partition and want to use it with Wine.. i've compiled Wine-20011004. After execute tools/winestall i get the following message: "Windows was not found so i assume ...." But i have mounted my NTFS - Partition in /mnt/WINNT and have the following entry in my fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/WINNT ntfs ro,auto,user,umask=022 0 2 ok i thought no problem and entered

Hey, Im using Wine 1.1.14 for OpenSuse 11.1. When I start WoW with wine I get the following messages: thaiko at dhcppc0:~> wine /media/ELRICK/'World of Warcraft'/Wow.exe -opengl Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled. wine: configuration in '/home/thaiko/.wine' has been updated. fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB.MPQ opened archive

Hi, Just got Fedora FC1 vanilla 2.4.25kernel+libata8patch booting problems, FC1 complains that it can not automatically find&found partitions specified with "LABEL=" in /etc/fstab, and then falls me into repair mode. In the repair mode I can mount it manually without any problems. More interesting are: 1) I have several partitions specified with "LABEL=*" in

I was thinking of putting a slightly bigger HD on my Linux server and would like to know the easiest way. I know that ghost works well on FAT32 partitions, but does it work on Ext3 partitions too? Id rather not reinstall if I don't have to, so any and all suggestions are appreciated. TIA Kev

I have 3 hds and one one hard drive I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one > Details: Failed to execute child process

I lost some partitions on my HD so I've had to make up my ~/.wine/config file again, but I can't seem to get it to work, I keep on getting ".... is not a valid registry file" TIA Ani ---- Begin /home/Ani/.wine/config ---- WINE REGISTRY version 2 [Drive C] "Path" = "/c" "Type = "hd" "Label" = "Windows"

I have enable wine to run on my Kubuntu, and try to run Pop Peeper from windows xp pro(my dual boot), it starts os and also haging await internet connection when in Kubuntu, even though is connected as dial up can any one help????????

I have a windows partition (XP), with a few applications I'd like to run on it while in BSD: Microsoft Office XP (for the occasional doc that OO doesn't like) Corel Photopaint 9 or X3 Trillian (not needed but would be nice) and a few games. The games run fine, pretty much like in windows, but they have fewer directx errors and crashes :-) Office gets annoyed when I open winword.exe in

hi, I'm trying for some time to get a few games to run and it seems like Wine wants to use my onboard graphic card (ATI HD 3200) instead of my ATI HD 5670. The reason i think that is a) sometimes when launching Starcraft 2 it tells me that the driver for my graphics card HD3200 is out of date and that i should update, and b) i found this when i tried launching Natural Selection 2.: > Build

i'm trying to install wine on my recently installed ubuntu 8.10, which i installed using wubi-installer to install it on top of my Vista OS, but it wont work! :? the first time i tried it, i did it the first method, i.e. adding the repositories in Software Sources, and then ATTEMPTING to download and save Scott Richie's key to my desktop by clicking on that link on the download