Hi! I would like to install Win98SE as a guest operating system on my Linux Mandrake. Is it possible using wine? If so, how to do it? Shall I leave the free Win partition that will be used during this installation process, or maybe it's not necessary? And do you know anything about the possibilities of windows installed in this way: will all my games and programs run properly? Also the sound may be a problem: my soundcard doesn't work under linux- and by now I am not succesful in making it working, but I have good Windows drivers for it: will it work? Thank You for all help.
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:29:05 +0200, DonWito <donwito@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:> I would like to install Win98SE as a guest operating system on my Linux > Mandrake. Is it possible using wine?No. Wine runs (some) windows software by itself. You may use some Windows DLLs instead of Wine-provided ones for added compatibility at places. If you want to actually run a Windows session, you'll need software such as vmware or freemware (free, but just under development).> Also the sound may be a problem: my soundcard doesn't work under linux- and > by now I am not succesful in making it working, but I have good Windows > drivers for it: will it work?This won't help in either case, I believe. See if 4Front's commercial Linux sound drivers will do the trick for you. -- Mikko Rauhala - mjr@iki.fi - http://www.iki.fi/mjr/
DonWito wrote:> Hi! > I would like to install Win98SE as a guest operating system on my Linux > Mandrake. Is it possible using wine? If so, how to do it? Shall IAs has already been said, you'll need something like VMware for this. leave the> free Win partition that will be used during this installation process, or > maybe it's not necessary? And do you know anything about the possibilities > of windows installed in this way: will all my games and programs run > properly?Under VMware: no, sorry. Its virtual graphics drivers do not have directx support. Some games will work, but I have only found one non-trivial game that I own to work under VMware and not WINE (it's the Settlers III btw). Also, VMware costs money.
In article <3B7455D1.409@webtribe.net>, Molf <molf@webtribe.net> writes>DonWito wrote: >> Hi! >> I would like to install Win98SE as a guest operating system on my Linux >> Mandrake. Is it possible using wine? If so, how to do it? Shall I >snip snip> Also, VMware costs money.and win4lin is slightly cheaper, significantly less resource hungry (vmware only comes into its own with bigger machines than my meagre 128Mb PR333) wine+win4lin covers most of my needs...>-- robert w hall
what exactly is win4lin? virtual machine? windows emulator? does it require windows?> win4lin is slightly cheaper, significantly less resource hungry > (vmware only comes into its own with bigger machines than my meagre > 128Mb PR333) > > wine+win4lin covers most of my needs... > >