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Art Vandalay

2002-Feb-28 16:59 UTC

theoretical question

i have heard some stories from some people who claim to have been able to
set up a partition in linux and install win98 via wine and then having it
fire up. i know wine isnt designed for this purpose but apparantly it has
been done....who knows, maybe someone is pulling my leg.

i'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has pulled this off and
if so how did they go about doing it. i tried it by trying to set up a fake
windows directory....ie /usr/win98 the copying the win98 cab files to this
location and configuring  an appropriate wine.conf file. however i wasnt
able to get past the initial win98 intro screen.

btw my partition was an ext3 filesystem or does /usr/win98 have to be a fat
partition??...the guts of my config file is as follows...and im usuing
redhat 7.2 with the latest wine 7.2 rpm

it's no big deal.....but it be cool to stick it up some obnoxious windows
users by having their pathetic little operating system running on my linux
desktop for show :P


[Drive A]
"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
"Type" = "floppy"
"Label" = "Floppy"
"Serial" = "87654321"
"Device" = "/dev/fd0"

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/usr/src/win98"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "WIN98"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-Rom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Tmp Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive F]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive Z]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "network"
"Label" = "Root"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "c:\\windows\\temp"
"Path" =
"c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;c:\\windows\\temp;"
;"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"




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phrostie

2002-Feb-28 18:46 UTC

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more than likely what you are thinking of is a virtual machine, like VMWare 
or Plex86.  yes it can be done, but it is not wine.  

wine is an emplimentation of the Win32 api on x86unix.

it's like having a wine32 api running on dos only better.
:-)

On Thursday 28 February 2002 17:59, you wrote:> i have heard some stories from some people who claim to have been able to
> set up a partition in linux and install win98 via wine and then having it
> fire up. i know wine isnt designed for this purpose but apparantly it has
> been done....who knows, maybe someone is pulling my leg.
>
> i'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has pulled this off
and
> if so how did they go about doing it. i tried it by trying to set up a fake
> windows directory....ie /usr/win98 the copying the win98 cab files to this
> location and configuring  an appropriate wine.conf file. however i wasnt
> able to get past the initial win98 intro screen.
>
> btw my partition was an ext3 filesystem or does /usr/win98 have to be a fat
> partition??...the guts of my config file is as follows...and im usuing
> redhat 7.2 with the latest wine 7.2 rpm
>
> it's no big deal.....but it be cool to stick it up some obnoxious
windows
> users by having their pathetic little operating system running on my linux
> desktop for show :P
>
>
> [Drive A]
> "Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
> "Type" = "floppy"
> "Label" = "Floppy"
> "Serial" = "87654321"
> "Device" = "/dev/fd0"
>
> [Drive C]
> "Path" = "/usr/src/win98"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "WIN98"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [Drive D]
> "Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
> "Type" = "cdrom"
> "Label" = "CD-Rom"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> "Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
>
> [Drive E]
> "Path" = "/tmp"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "Tmp Drive"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [Drive F]
> "Path" = "${HOME}"
> "Type" = "network"
> "Label" = "Home"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [Drive Z]
> "Path" = "/"
> "Type" = "network"
> "Label" = "Root"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [wine]
> "Windows" = "c:\\windows"
> "System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
> "Temp" = "c:\\windows\\temp"
> "Path" =
"c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;c:\\windows\\temp;"
> ;"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
> "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
> "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
>
>
>
>
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Sylvain Petreolle

2002-Feb-28 19:44 UTC

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> btw my partition was an ext3 filesystem or does
> /usr/win98 have to be a fat
> partition??...the guts of my config file is as
> follows...and im usuing
> redhat 7.2 with the latest wine 7.2 rpm
Please consider an update...
Redhat 7.2 Wine is pretty old (RH 7.3beta is out or
will be in weeks)

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PColbourn@argus.net.au

2002-Feb-28 20:55 UTC

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but if windows setup.exe is just a Win32 API program, then
'theoretically'
wine should be able to run it, and hence install windows under wine.

Phil





phrostie <pfrostie@yahoo.com>
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01/03/2002 11:46
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more than likely what you are thinking of is a virtual machine, like 
VMWare 
or Plex86.  yes it can be done, but it is not wine. 

wine is an emplimentation of the Win32 api on x86unix.

it's like having a wine32 api running on dos only better.
:-)

On Thursday 28 February 2002 17:59, you wrote:> i have heard some stories from some people who claim to have been able 
to> set up a partition in linux and install win98 via wine and then having 
it> fire up. i know wine isnt designed for this purpose but apparantly it 
has> been done....who knows, maybe someone is pulling my leg.
>
> i'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has pulled this off
and> if so how did they go about doing it. i tried it by trying to set up a 
fake> windows directory....ie /usr/win98 the copying the win98 cab files to 
this> location and configuring  an appropriate wine.conf file. however i wasnt
> able to get past the initial win98 intro screen.
>
> btw my partition was an ext3 filesystem or does /usr/win98 have to be a 
fat> partition??...the guts of my config file is as follows...and im usuing
> redhat 7.2 with the latest wine 7.2 rpm
>
> it's no big deal.....but it be cool to stick it up some obnoxious 
windows> users by having their pathetic little operating system running on my 
linux> desktop for show :P
>
>
> [Drive A]
> "Path" = "/mnt/floppy"
> "Type" = "floppy"
> "Label" = "Floppy"
> "Serial" = "87654321"
> "Device" = "/dev/fd0"
>
> [Drive C]
> "Path" = "/usr/src/win98"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "WIN98"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [Drive D]
> "Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
> "Type" = "cdrom"
> "Label" = "CD-Rom"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> "Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
>
> [Drive E]
> "Path" = "/tmp"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "Tmp Drive"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [Drive F]
> "Path" = "${HOME}"
> "Type" = "network"
> "Label" = "Home"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [Drive Z]
> "Path" = "/"
> "Type" = "network"
> "Label" = "Root"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
>
> [wine]
> "Windows" = "c:\\windows"
> "System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
> "Temp" = "c:\\windows\\temp"
> "Path" =
"c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;c:\\windows\\temp;"
> ;"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
> "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
> "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
>
>
>
>
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Jim Shaffer, Jr.

2002-Mar-01 17:49 UTC

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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:59:40 +1100, "Art Vandalay"
<jkara@bf.rmit.edu.auz> wrote:
>i have heard some stories from some people who claim to have been able to
>set up a partition in linux and install win98 via wine and then having it
>fire up. i know wine isnt designed for this purpose but apparantly it has
>been done....who knows, maybe someone is pulling my leg.
Well, for starters, it's common knowledge that running Explorer under Wine
trashes the Windows directory structure...  So I doubt that anyone is running
the entirety of Windows under Wine.

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