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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > -- > Spouse, n.: > Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you > wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
