I don't think this would really work, *IF* in fact it could boot it from
another "real" parititon. One thing is that the drivers and stuff that
are in the actual Windows installation would not be right for the
Win4Lin installation since Win4lin uses different virtual hardware
device and supplies it's own tweaked drivers for vid and sound.
One thing I HAVE done is installed Win4Lin/Windows 98 then made symbolic
links to take the place of the following Win4Lin/Windows directories
(the corresponding dirs under the Win4Lin users dir are then deleted):
C:\windows\desktop
C:\windows\Start Menu
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
C:\Program Files
C:\Windows\command
c:\windows\cookies
c:\windows\cursors
c:\windows\favorites
C:\My Documents
And all the other subdirs off the root that are on my "real" Windows
drive. The effect is to have the Win4Lin Windows setup and then make it
use the SAME directories as my "real" Windows session does. This saves
MASSIVE amounts of HD room (fewer dupe files and dirs) and makes the
Win4Lin/Windows look pretty much identical to my "real" session. So if
I dual boot to Windowz or use WIn4Lin all the same stuff is there.
I had to "reinstall" a few apps so that they wrote the DLL's and
registry stuff to the Win4Lin system but surprisingly a lot of
applications work OK without "reinstalling". MSIE 5.5 (upgraded from
the original Win 98 4.0 or 5.0) is a pain in the ass though, I can't
remember the exact steps but I *think* you have to install it to the
Win4Lin's system BEFORE you do the symlink and delete the original - it
also has to be installed on the "real" Windows parition too before the
symlink will work. This really back fires if you decide to rebuild the
"real" Windows partition and all ready have IE 5.5 on the WIn4Lin - the
bastard will NOT UNinstall. Fscking MS made it that way, surprise!
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>I looked at the structure of the win4lin windows installation, and I
wondered
>if it could be possible to boot an existing windows partition by
copying the
>/dev/fd0 boot image that win4lin uses to boot windows, to the windows
>partition.
>
>Somebody ever tried that ?
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