One VERY discouraged newbie...

[Plasma]

Mike Sowka <msowka at home.com> wrote in message news:<3BDFA7BB.4080500 at home.com>...
> After hearing all the rave about Half-Life/Counter-Strike on Wine I 
> decided to take the plunge myself... after rpm -e the default OLD wine 
> packages from my RH7.2 install I installed wine20011004 graciously 
> provided by http://www.linux-easy.com/daily/ ... setup my ~/.wine/config 
> and got VERY UPSET when Half-Life install would even work... barfing the 
> folloowing message! :(
> 
>

Ah, a kindred spirit, I'm having a heck of a lot of trouble with HL
too, but hey, it isn't bad for alpha software.   In any case, I'll
help with what I can.

Firstly, I suggest you go to lhl.linuxgames.com, the linux halflife
site.  It has a HOWTO for setting up linux in halflife, though
admittedly it is quite average in detail.

> [msowka at mainframe cdrom]$ ./Setup.exe
> Warning: /usr/bin/wine not accessible from a configured DOS drive
> Warning: /usr/bin/wine not accessible from a configured DOS drive
> Warning: /usr/bin/wine not accessible from a configured DOS drive

Here is probably your biggest problem.  Wine wants to access
/usr/bin/wine for some reason for the program.  You should edit your
wine config file (most likely ~/.wine/config), and add an extra drive
to the end of the list.  The extra drive's configuration should look
like this (with of course whatever drive letter you want inserted:
[Drive X]
"Path" = "/usr" 
"Type" = "hd"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

This way, your /usr filesystem will appear as drive X to all windows
apps, which will solve the above problem.

With regards to that "window owned by other process" problem, ignore
it.  My version of WINE says that too when I run InstallShield, but it
always works fine anyway.