Newbie needs help in installing Wine

Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01 a31dgo001 at sneakemail.com
Wed Nov 7 05:20:35 CST 2001


Arvin <arvsreyes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi! I've been trying to install Wine for the past few days, reading
> newsgroups and documentations, but I still cant figure out what to do.
> Any help will be much appreciated as I'm just beginning to migrate to
> Linux.

> Part1
> Steps I did:
>  Okay, here's what I did..
>  1) mount the my windows c drive 
>     mount -t vfat /dev/hda1  /c
>  2) installed Wine
>    ./tools/wineinstall
>  
> Error I got:
>   Searching for an existing Windows installation... not found.
>   
>   Windows was not found on your system, so I assume you want a
> Wine-only installation. Am I correct? (yes/no)

> Question 1:
>   How do I make wine find my Windows installation? Isn't this done
> upon mounting (step 1 as above)?
Nope, I'm afraid wineinstall only looks at /etc/fstab mount entries.
I'll fix it to mention this fact.

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