Needed files from WIN dist. [BEFORE: Windows Installation under WINE]

[Uwe Bonnes]

Jon Gretar <jongretar at my-deja.com> wrote:
: I think everyone misunderstood me. I'm not trying to set up windows to
: start using windows in Linux like with VMWare. Why would anyone want to
: do that.

Wine != VMwaare

: My problem is the fact that I need some files from MS-Windows to be
: able to run some programs in WINE. Like I need regedit.exe and other
: programs in the windows distibution.
: I see that most people copy the c:\windows\ directory from a previously
: installed windows in another partition or something like that or make
: the WINE config point to installed windows somewhere.
: I have however no access to previously installed windows on this
: computer. I only have the Windows install CDs.
: Do I really have to set up a partition on the computer and install Win
: there to get these files???

Look for the windows .cab files. They contain what you want. The windows CD
should have  extract.exe, which should run with WineDos. There are also
other cab viewers and extractors out there. E.g. CabWoman comes to mind.

Find out what cab contains the file you want and extract them.

B.t.w, why do you want to run regedit if you don't have a windows
installation? Wine stores data in a readable form.

Bye
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