(Newbie in need of instruction) I am trying to copy my existing windows partition into my linux partition. I did read the HOWTOs, Readme, and Manual to figure out how to do this but I do not seem to be able to do this. If somone would like to help that would be great. I just need basic step by step instructions talored to my ignorance of this usefull operating system. I have SuSE 8.0. -Drozen- _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
>I am trying to copy my existing windows partition into my linux partition. >I did read the HOWTOs, Readme, and Manual to figure out how to do this but >I do not seem to be able to do this. If somone would like to help that >would be great. >I just need basic step by step instructions talored to my ignorance of >this usefull operating system. I have SuSE 8.0.You usually don't need to copy your partition. After installing wine you can already try to run an application. Simple apps should already work. For bigger apps with installers it's best if you reinstall them again under wine. This of course only if wine uses it's own registry. You can also use the windows registry but there's too much crap in it. And if you mess it up Windows won't work anymore. If some apps fail maybe you can see from the messages if they have problems with certain dlls. Then you can copy these dlls to your fake windows/system dir and adjust the wine config for every app to use the original (native) dlls instead of the wine (builtin) ones. Long time I did a completely fresh install so I may have got something wrong. bye Fabi
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, David Rosenthal wrote:> (Newbie in need of instruction) > > I am trying to copy my existing windows partition into my linux partition. > I did read the HOWTOs, Readme, and Manual to figure out how to do this but I > do not seem to be able to do this. If somone would like to help that would > be great. > I just need basic step by step instructions talored to my ignorance of this > usefull operating system. I have SuSE 8.0. > > > -Drozen- > > > > If windows is on the first primary partion of the first hard disk,and fat or fat32 (win9x or winMe), then from a root xterm window: # cd / # mkdir /<your-choice> # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /<your-choice> # cp -iR /<your-choice>/<source-dir-or-file> /<destination-dir>/ should work.