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" ------------ And now a word from our sponsor ------------------ Want to have instant messaging, and chat rooms, and discussion groups for your local users or business, you need dbabble! -- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_dbabble.htm ----
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" > > > > > ------------ And now a word from our sponsor ------------------ > Want to have instant messaging, and chat rooms, and discussion > groups for your local users or business, you need dbabble! > -- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_dbabble.htm ---- > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users-- Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS, and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/list/cad-linux
> 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 rpmPlease consider an update... Redhat 7.2 Wine is pretty old (RH 7.3beta is out or will be in weeks) ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran?ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
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> Sent by: wine-users-admin@winehq.com 01/03/2002 11:46 Please respond to wine-users To: wine-users@winehq.com cc: Subject: Re: theoretical question 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 ableto> set up a partition in linux and install win98 via wine and then havingit> fire up. i know wine isnt designed for this purpose but apparantly ithas> been done....who knows, maybe someone is pulling my leg. > > i'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who has pulled this offand> if so how did they go about doing it. i tried it by trying to set up afake> windows directory....ie /usr/win98 the copying the win98 cab files tothis> 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 afat> 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 obnoxiouswindows> users by having their pathetic little operating system running on mylinux> 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" > > > > > ------------ And now a word from our sponsor ------------------ > Want to have instant messaging, and chat rooms, and discussion > groups for your local users or business, you need dbabble! > -- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_dbabble.htm ---- > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users-- Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS, and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings. http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/ http://www.freelists.org/list/cad-linux _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
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.