using a windows installation

[Ivan Leo Murray-Smith]

>You can certainly install an app under windows (non-NTFS: win98, others)
>and then boot into linux, mount the windows drive & point wine at it,
>and try to use wine to run the app.  If you have a problem with the
>installer under wine then that might be your next step.
If you have NTFS, linux can read it, so you can install the app on windows, and
copy the installation directory over to the fake windows installation. The
registry shouldn't be a problem, most programs work even if you don't copy the
registry entries.