According to the wine faq "you do not need a licensed and installed copy of
DOS or MS Windows to install, configure and run Wine. However, Wine has to be
able to 'see' an MS Windows binary if it is to run it."
In fact, one of the goals of the wine project is that on completion a win\dos
partition not be required.
I personally have a win partition ... the problem you can run into emulating
without it is that some applications destribute other nescessary files in
windows && windows\system, etc., so I don't think there's a clear cut answer, it
depends on the application. If I was in your situation, I'd definatly give it
a try first without. For some reason I couldn't get to the faq from
www.winehq.com so here's another link to it. Check out section 3.6 it provides
some examples that may point you in the right direction.
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/answers/windows-emulation/wine-faq
good luck ...
-D-
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Charles M Stapleton wrote:
> I compiled Wine successfully on a machine without dos or windows on it.
> So is there a way I can still use it without the windows installation on
> there. Can I just copy certain file from say a windows 95 machine and
> use them?
> Linux : )
>
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