The pest again

Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 02:22:16 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 18:04 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Thanks.  Works nicely!

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