Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (332 mails)

[Chris Howells <chrish@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 12:30 pm, Mark Evans wrote:
> Even if you only want to run one application
> it isn't quite that simple if you want to do
> things like access files belonging to the
> user, print, etc. You'd need a fairly large

True.

I'm hoping that that can be worked around :)

> I'm not sure I understand why you'd need a
> Windows partition.

WINE runs best when it can access the "real" Windows DLLs from a Windows 
partition. Apparently.

> "multimedia" titles are a problem anyway,
> because many demanding a drive letter for
> the "CDROM". Either you need some kind of
> automounter or you run out of drive letters
> PDQ.

Ah right, another difficulty to think about :(

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