A friend gave me an old Fujitsu tablet that has Ubuntu/Linux installed. I want to wipe the system clean and install Windows XP. I have a Windows XP CD but the tablet PC doesn't have a CDROM drive. I transfered the files from the Windows XP CD to a USB key. The problem is you can't run the Windows XP setup in the Ubuntu environment and the Bios of the Tablet PC will does not support booting from a USB device. Can I launch the Windows XP installation setup successfully by running the setup utility from Wine?
Em 07-04-2010 21:11, techman41973 escreveu:> Can I launch the Windows XP installation setup successfully by running the setup utility from Wine?No. -- Renan Birck - Eng. El?trica | "We all know Linux is great. UFSM - http://renanbirck.blogspot.com | It does infinite loops in skype: renan.ee.ufsm | irc: silentivm | 4 seconds. " (Torvalds) http://twitter.com/renan2112 | LRU #390969 - Arch Linux
techman41973 wrote:> A friend gave me an old Fujitsu tablet that has Ubuntu/Linux installed. > I want to wipe the system clean and install Windows XP. > I have a Windows XP CD but the tablet PC doesn't have a CDROM drive. > I transfered the files from the Windows XP CD to a USB key. The problem is you can't run the Windows XP setup in the Ubuntu environment and the Bios of the Tablet PC will does not support booting from a USB device. > Can I launch the Windows XP installation setup successfully by running the setup utility from Wine? > >Simple answer: No. Lengthy answer: You will have to boot the XP disk from a readable CD/DVD device in order for the installation to be orderly as XP will reboot your system at least once during the install and keep on trying to install. Best solution is to try a single drive install. That is WAY beyond this mailing list/forum and is described elsewhere on the Internet. James McKenzie
In the context of wine and XP I have in the past installed XP on qemu (http://www.qemu.org/) for the purpose of testing applications on windows side by side with applications running on wine to see if or how they behave differently.
QEmu is a virtual machine emulating an entire computer. Wine only interprets and tries to execute Windows binaries - therefore you will NEVER be able to install Windows in Wine. See Wine as a program to handle Windows apps, not as a means to actually install real Windows.