Searching for an existing Windows installation

[Christian Britz]

Dear all,

because this step during the installation takes very long, I would
suggest to make it optional.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian

[Bodo Thiesen]

Christian Britz  wrote:
> because this step during the installation takes very long, I would
> suggest to make it optional.

wineinstall ~ line 35:

DOWCHK=no                     # whether to autoconfigure existing-windows installation

maybe you want to set DOWINE, too:

DOWINE=yes                   # whether to autoconfigure no-windows installation

Of course, a --help cmdline option wouldn't be bad, and a way to set this 
values using cmdline options wouldn't be bad, too.

Regards, Bodo

[Oliver Stieber]

I would suggest:
search for windows partitions.
look on those partitions for boot.ini files or wine
win95 equivilent.
voila.

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[Mike Hearn]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:10:54 +0100, Christian Britz wrote:
> because this step during the installation takes very long, I would
> suggest to make it optional.

We should disable it by default, especially as Windows XP is so common
these days. It used to be that using a real 98 drive could improve things
a lot, but these days I feel the opposite is true, and using XP/NT almost
always made things worse.