Hi! Is it possible to set up Wine for access to a real partition or entire disc over standard Windows API ? Or at least access to "disk-file" ? (that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk) Thanks, David
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM, xerces8 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi! > > Is it possible to set up Wine for access to a real partition or entire disc over standard Windows API ? > > Or at least access to "disk-file" ? > (that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk) >Not sure what the heck you are talking about but you do not want to have you wine C: drive mapped to the real windows c: because this will lead to corruption of your windows drive and also break your wine as well. John
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, xerces8 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi! > > Is it possible to set up Wine for access to a real partition or entire disc over standard Windows API ? > > Or at least access to "disk-file" ? > (that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk) > > Thanks, > David > > > > > >I.e., you want to mount an ISO, point to it in winecfg as a real drive, and have the ISO file be the 'physical' device?
xerces8 wrote:> Or at least access to "disk-file" ? > (that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk)No Wine can not do things like that. You have to mount such a "disk-files" with your system and them point Wine to it.