ok i need a WINE guru

[Icculus]

i have win2k and im running MDK 8 , i cant get WINE to run no matter what i try , im probly just doing something wrong , i need someone to just help me through it. i tried using lil nudges which im greatful that everyone here and every where elese has given me , but i just cant seem to get it working

anyone willing to help a n00bie out ? :)

[Icculus]

*bump*

anyone ? i would really like to get it working

thnx

[bdg1983]

I'm not a Wine user myself though I have read some of the documentation.

Have you configured wine.conf for your particular Windows installation?

What exactly does not work and what have you tried?

I just had a look at my Wine install and noticed I have quite a large html document in /usr/share/doc/packages/wine-20010308/wine-doc.html

Yours may be a slightly different location, but perhaps the document will help.

Sorry as I know little about the subject.

[Icculus]

see thats wher eim getting lost , the paths and stuff , #1 im on win2k , so im assuming that my path int he cfg should be c:\winnt
instead of c:\windows

is there a win2k faq ?
cause its not on the site

[Icculus]

ok this is where im at , let me explain a few facts
this is win2k im trying to make work with it
im on mandrake 8.0
i have the latest wine

ok this is the error im getting

[icculus@mothership icculus]$ wine
Line 30: Malformed value '"Path" = "/mnt/windows'
Line 56: Malformed value '"Windows" = "c:\\winnt'
FIXME :pthread_rwlock_rdlock
FIXME :pthread_rwlock_unlock
Could not stat 87654321 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive C:
Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /home/icculus; starting in windows directory.
Invalid path '!' for windows directory: does not exist
Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
This is '/home/icculus/.wine/config'

[Icculus]

i mean in my eyes i have it configured how i should , but obviously i must not

[JALU]

um just going out on a limb here but maybe that should read

Windows = /mnt/windows/winnt

?

Just a thought, C:\ doesn't mean anything to linux.

[getek]

I believe that you are supposed to be able to define the C drive in wine.conf, and then refer to everything in "windows notation 'c:\\blah\\blah'"
but I think you can also use the linux path '/mnt/c/winnt' or wherever your windows partition is mounted and stuff.
Just make sure that the windows partition is mounted before starting wine.

[lostintexas]

have you tried running winesetup. this is the step that i missed. it sets it up and builds a wine.conf file for you. it may take some tweaking for your particular aplications but may be a start.

[Icculus]

winesetup ? perhaps i did miss that it wasnt in the faq on this site .. i dont think :( me go look thnx for the tip

[WilliamWallace]

try this:

cd to your windows partition (/mnt/windows).

cd to the directory of the program your trying to run

wine program name

that works for me....

[Icculus]

ok here is what i did


ftp://ftp.codeweavers.com/pub/wine/support/Mandrake/8.0/itcl-8.3.2-7mdk.i586.rpm

i went there and started from scratch i removed wine how it said , i installed that lil pack it wanted me to , then i installed wine . i type winesetup and i get no command found . how can i be doing something wrong ? :-\

[Mr.Shifty]

when u installed wine did u do it command by command or did u run the setup script?

and on the subject of wine and win2k is there a way i can make wine read ntfs (the filesystem running my core win2k system file's)

[Icculus]

well i used the rpm command rpm -i (file name)

was that wrong ?

[Icculus]

rpm -i codeweavers-wine-20010626-4.rpm

[Icculus]

oh and btw , after it failed i tried using the software package installer , i double clicked and put in root pass and off it went , still no "winesetup" functionality :(

[Icculus]

wooo i got it working , thnx for your help guyz , im new still i didnt know you need a scr before you install the i386 , live in learn huh ? still a lil buggy , i think a dedicated win98 folder will run it better , but w000t !

[Icculus]

ok anyone know how to get openGL working ? i know in my stumblings i found it someplace that you can compile it into wine or something