Re: wine question
You can compile in ntfs ro support in the 2.2.1 kernel. I think there might be
an experimental rw support bit as well.
Peter Allen
Dan Willard wrote:
>
> There is a tool/program that allows linux to read ntfs (and dos to read it
> too). I need to check around to find it again. I've never used it so I
> don't know how well it works.
>
> --Dano
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Mahurin [SMTP:alphenglor@rhct093.res.utk.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:52 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: wine question
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:40:21PM +0100, Lars Steinke wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:48:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will
> > > > wine support this??
> > >
> > > Wine is a Windoze emulator for 16bit applications and I do not
> > > think you can use you Win NT installation as a basis for the
> > > emulator but I might be mistaken...
> > >
> >
> > I use wine occaisionally with an nt4 installation. The only problems that
> > I've encountered are that several programs that are reported to work under
> > wine do not. In general, I can run some small programs (freecell,
> > minesweeper :) but larger, useful programs such as Wordperfect (7) fail.
> > There is an option "-winver nt4" or something like that once you get it up
> > and running, but it hasn't worked any miracles for me.
> >
> > Also, you must be able to access your windoze partition to run wine; mine
> > is
> > vfat, so I'm okay, but I was under the impression that NTFS was unreadable
> > to Linux and that this is the source of many pains in many butts.
> >
> > > Check out www.wineHQ.com for information.
> >
> > why, what a phenomenal idea. I think I'll do that myself.
> >
> > Rob
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