23 Sep 2010
I have a dual boot using two separate hard disks. Win XP is installed on sda and Ubuntu 10.04 on sdb. I have installed WINE on sdb.
Can I use WINE to install a device driver for Win XP from sdb without starting Win XP?
When I try to start WinXP it gives a message about the lack of a suitable device driver for my NVIDIA video card then stops booting. I want to install a new driver and see if Win XP will accept it.
-Novice
Using WINE to install device drivers for Windows XP
No. That won't work. At least it would not be straight forward at all. The reason is that installing drivers alters the registry hives loaded in memory (when done from Windows), and the Windows registry and the Wine registry are formatted differently. If not for this, I think it technically could be possible if you configured your wine directories to clobber your windows directories. Still this would be a very bad and dangerous idea.
The short answer, again, no.
The short answer, again, no.
Re: Using WINE to install device drivers for Windows XP
Installers for hardware drivers usually crash in Wine, but even if they didn't, allowing Wine to write to a real Windows registry would render Windows inoperable. Wine stores its registry as a plain text file; Windows doesn't.novice wrote: I have a dual boot using two separate hard disks. Win XP is installed on sda and Ubuntu 10.04 on sdb. I have installed WINE on sdb.
Can I use WINE to install a device driver for Win XP from sdb without starting Win XP?
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2
