Wineifying my windows partition

The MJ · 02-21-2007, 04:36 PM

I want to use Wine to run my windows programs side-by-side with my windows programs. I have an existing windows partition with everything I need on it.

Is there any way to get wine to run the programs directly off the windows partition without re-installing them in linux?

pixellany · 02-21-2007, 08:42 PM

In principle, if the Windows partition is mounted into the Linux filesystem tree, this might work. Why not try it?

I don't understand this:

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run my windows programs side-by-side with my windows programs

The MJ · 02-21-2007, 11:22 PM

I'm sorry.
I want to run my windows programs side-by-side with my linux programs

How would I go about doing that?

pixellany · 02-22-2007, 05:40 AM

Normally, you run a Windows program (including installer) by simply double-clicking the .exe in the GUI---or by entering "wine <filename>.exe" in a terminal.

Will it work with the .exe in an NTFS partition? As I said, try it.

exbootie · 02-22-2007, 09:54 AM

I have tried to run an exe in a ntfs partition with wine -- result - no go . having said that my windoze is on a separate drive and is accessed via samba share

Emerson · 02-22-2007, 11:16 AM

... as always, you can ask your question here and read various opinions of members of this board. Or, you can read the documentation written by developers of software in question and get a definitive answer. Latter is faster, too.
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine...CH-VERSIONS-OK