Hi, I've used wine previously under "no windows" type install on my Linux box. I've had some success, and have seen some recommendations for running wine with access to the the Windows partition to make install and whatnot easier. I'm interested now in putting a dual-boot machine at my office, the candidate hardware already has Win2000 with NTFS installed. There's lots of cool stuff that I'd really like to run under wine, so if I could save it with a simple re-partition, that would be great! Is there a preference for NTFS or VFAT on the Windows partition with respect to ease of use under wine? Are both equally easy and/or work as well? I have not seen this yet on winehq or codeweavers...(hint: "HOWTO: create a dual-boot system with Windows and Linux/Wine that lets you keep all your old Win applications but lets you stay in Linux for as much as possible"). What's best for the Windows install...NTFS or VFAT? DD
> What's best for the Windows install...NTFS or VFAT?Only fat will work decently with wine, unless you install a NTFS driver on linux, but if you can chose, use VFAT, as it will work out of the box. Also, if you can, use win98se instead of win2k (The win2k license allows you to install all previous versions of windows ), it works better with wine. Ivan.
> I've used wine previously under "no windows" type install on my Linux > box. I've had some success, and have seen some recommendations for > running wine with access to the the Windows partition to make install > and whatnot easier.All the recommendations I've seen point to a fake windows install. The install docs for Wine seem to indicate that sharing the Windows partition can cause instability between Windows and Wine.> Is there a preference for NTFS or VFAT on the Windows partition with > respect to ease of use under wine? Are both equally easy and/or work as > well?FAT32. I have a NTFS partition with Windows on it and wish I had done FAT32 there. Linux does not have stable write support for NTFS, so if you want to be able to have read/write capabilities to the Windows partition from Linux/Wine you will have to use FAT32.