Install Windows in a partition of the HD using Wine

[giammo92]

Hi everybody!
First at all, sorry for my bad english

My problem is: How to install Windows running it from the cd using Wine.

I know that it's ten thousand time easier to reboot my pc and install windows as usual but now it's a challenge for me and I hope you can help me

I archieve to run the I386/winnt32.exe whit root permission and let him recognize the drive where i want to install Windows.
I use the command

"wine winnt32.exe /syspart:E:"

where E: is the partition of the hd, added using winecfg

The installation started but after some seconds an error windows prompt out saying that in my pc there are basic volumes created with windows NT 4.0. It said that i have to convert them into dinamic using Disk Administrator.

How can i fix it?

[James_Huk]

You CAN'T install WINDOWS using wine!! You can install Windows applications only.

[James Mckenzie]

giammo92 <[email protected]> wrote:

Sent: Jul 2, 2010 7:01 AM
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Subject: [Wine] Install Windows in a partition of the HD using Wine

The installation started but after some seconds an error windows prompt out saying that
in my pc there are basic volumes created with windows NT 4.0. It said that i have to
convert them into dinamic using Disk Administrator.

How can i fix it?

Buy a legal copy of Windows. Wine cannot be used in this manner, nor (for legal reasons) should it be able to do so.

Microsoft disabled exactly what you are trying to do in the early 1990s with WinNT 3.5.1.

James McKenzie

[John Drescher]

The installation started but after some seconds an error windows prompt out saying that in my pc there are basic volumes created with windows NT 4.0. It said that i have to convert them into dinamic using Disk Administrator.

How can i fix it?

Use an emulator like virtualbox. Wine is not an emulator so it can not
do that. It replaces the windows api allowing windows programs to be
run under *nix instead of creating a virtual machine in which windows
can be run.

John