The pest again

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 21 01:04:25 UTC 2008


On 07/20/2008 03:46 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 21:33 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:58 -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>> > Is this now a dual-boot Ubuntu/WinXP system?  I get the distinct 
>> > impression that you are expecting WINE to magically give you access to 
>> > the "Windows side" of a dual-boot system.  Which is not what it does 
>> > at all.  
>> 
>> That said, if the OP wants to have access to his existing Windows
>> install and run that in a window under Ubuntu, this can be done with
>> virtualization. At least vmware supports it (with may a bit of Windows
>> profile fiddling), I don't know about other virtualization solutions
>> like Virtualbox or others.
>> 
>> > <http://www.winehq.org/>
>> 
>> Also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wine
>> 
>> 
> 
> The first link is very helpful -- thanks.  The second page doesn't seem
> to exist.
> 
> Thanks!

Try:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine





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