[PLUG] WINE Question

alan alan at clueserver.org
Thu Sep 19 16:08:00 UTC 2002


WINE does *not* need a FAT partition.  It works fine on ext2.  It creates 
a fake DOS drive and file hierarchy.  Not certain how it handles older DOS 
apps that hook the file interupts directly.  Probably justs emulates the 
INT calls.

On 19 Sep 2002, Russell Senior wrote:

> >>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> 
> Rich>   Wine runs on a linux fs, but I believe that the application
> Rich> and data need to be on a vfat (type 6) fs. 
> 
> I don't think so.  I just recently ran my first ever Wine application,
> a MS Fortran application written at BPA.  
> 
> I did this because it allowed me to run the thing (it was a long
> running computation) on a stable box (my analysis workstation) rather
> than on my only MS platform, my laptop which is on/off all the time
> and moves around.
> 
> Anyway, it runs fine from an ext2 file system and thus, I infer,
> probably all others.  No vfat filesystem in sight on the box in
> question.
> 
> 
> 





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