Are there any FAQs or HowTos on setting up the opposite of a Windows-Free Wine? In other words, if I've got a Windows CD, and I'm willing to use as much of it with Wine as is optimal, what would I do? 'Optimal' means 'as fully Windows compatible as possible.' I'm willing to use Win98/ME/2K/XP, whichever is most likely to give me a Wine environment that will run as many common Windows apps as possible. (If the answer is RTFM at WineHQ, I could really use a pointer, because I can't find it.)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kleinfelter wrote:> In other words, if I've got a Windows CD, and I'm willing to use as much > of it with Wine as is optimal, what would I do? 'Optimal' means 'as > fully Windows compatible as possible.' I'm willing to use > Win98/ME/2K/XP, whichever is most likely to give me a Wine environment > that will run as many common Windows apps as possible. >While at the moment, I am not running wine with a Windows partition, I have in the past. I had good success with win98. All I used my windows partition for was wine. This is probably the best idea as using wine incurrs *the possibility* of DAMAGE to the windows install. Probably the easiest way to set this up is to make a fat32 partition at the front of a secondary hard. Then shut down and make the secondary drive the only hard drive in the computer and install windows. Then procede to install any programs you want to run along with any packages they need to run. Then shutdown and reinstall your linux drive. In linux, get the latest wine source(tarball or via cvs. Make sure your fat32 partition is mounted via /etc/fstab as rw. cd into the new wine source tree and run ./tools/wineinstall as your normal user. Wine should then proceed to configure, compile, install(with use of your root password), then recogize your windows install, and create the appropriate config files in ~/.wine. Cheers, Adam Schreiber -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+3/nmjU1oaHEI4wgRAnsUAKCmXc6ILM8sOH2Su3uR1IBrMs/bsgCfZWwY QUi8aeHWMPQKN8FgyhbDF8k=u4dq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Maybe you should consider VMWare, even though its commercial, it gives that optimal performance for Windows environment on UNIX ./Joe On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 21:22, Kevin Kleinfelter wrote:> Are there any FAQs or HowTos on setting up the opposite of a Windows-Free > Wine? > > In other words, if I've got a Windows CD, and I'm willing to use as much of > it with Wine as is optimal, what would I do? 'Optimal' means 'as fully > Windows compatible as possible.' I'm willing to use Win98/ME/2K/XP, > whichever is most likely to give me a Wine environment that will run as > many common Windows apps as possible. > > (If the answer is RTFM at WineHQ, I could really use a pointer, because I > can't find it.) > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
>Are there any FAQs or HowTos on setting up the opposite of a Windows-Free Wine? > >In other words, if I've got a Windows CD, and I'm willing to use as much of it with Wine as is optimal, what would I do? 'Optimal' means 'as fully Windows compatible as possible.' I'm willing to use Win98/ME/2K/XP, whichever is most likely to give me a Wine environment that will run as many common Windows apps as possible.One way is to have a normal Windows installation and use the existing folders for wine too. For this you need to mount the windows drive and you need to be careful as messing up the registry can destroy your Windows. I have never tried this so you might find more info in the archives. The second way is to have a clean wine installation and just copy all needed dlls from Windows into the fake drive. Then you need to configure wine to use them instead of the builtin dlls: "native, builtin". Again many hints in the mail archives. bye Fabi