This makes a single 1.5 gbyte file on your HD (make sure you have the
room!)  Connects it to the loopback device and builds an e2fs files
system in it (note you can even e2fsck it when windoze crashes!).  Mount
it on a directory called win and the win4lin install will install right
into it.  Only prob is lotsa wasted space.  Use the win4lin admin
utility to mount various linux directories as disks under windows and
works well.  I am using win 95/office 97.  Office 2000 still does not
want to install and some programs return a unix path instead of a
windows one on install and fail, but I think that would have happened in
any case.  Note that any single file under e2fs is limited to 2gb or so.

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1500000 of=very_large_file.dsk
losetup /dev/loop0 very_large_file.dsk
mke2fs /dev/loop0
mkdir /home/whoever_you_are/win
mount /dev/loop0 win

BillK
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