can wine install a windows program

[Michael Loose]

Some installers do just fine, but until now i haven't managed to get an 
install from CD done or
to install from a selfextracting archive (like e.g. Adobe Photoshop trial).

/Michael

Alan Bort wrote:

>this seems to be a common problem... I can't install ANYTHING at all...
>all I can do is run windows installed apis by mounting it's partition...
>though... HL installed very well with wine... And quake has a point
>release for linux so it's not necesary to use wine...
>
>El mié, 23 de 04 de 2003 a las 22:41, ovrundr escribió:
>  
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I'm new to wine and trying to get the install to work.
>>I'm running Mandrake 9.0 with the default install of wine.
>>I had to get a winedefault.reg from the web, since I could not
>>find one on my system anywhere. I've check the directory
>>structure per the install docs on the wine web site.
>>
>>Simple prgrams seems to work (winmine, solitaire, notepad).
>>
>>The problem I'm having is that I can't install anything.
>>I run the install by mounting the CD and running
>>wine d:\\setup.exe or wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
>>I've tried serval different apps. and get the same error on each:
>>
>>Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000034 in 32 bit
>>code (0x40dc090d)
>>In 32-bit mode.
>>0x40dc090d (x11DRV.DLL.SetDeviceGammaRamp+0x6a2db in libGL.so.1):
>>cmpl
>>0x34(%ebx),%esi
>>
>>I posting this in the Mandrake group on yahoo and was told that 
>>wine does not do installs. The documentation seems to say otherwise.
>>
>>Since I don't have windows install on this system "fake windows", 
>>is this posible?
>>
>>or am I dreaming.
>>
>>Rick
>>
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