[Wine]Problems with installing a program

Rein Klazes rklazes at xs4all.nl
Fri Nov 12 10:07:32 CST 2004


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:20:00 -0800, you wrote:

> I think this is an interesting issue. I *think* I'm seeing different
> results with Wine on some setup programs based on which if the
> following I do:
> 
> 1) cd ~mark; wine /mnt/cdrom/install.exe
> 
> 2) cd /mnt/cdrom; wine install.exe
> 
> 3) cd ~mark/.wine/dosdevices/c:/; wine /mnt/cdrom/install.exe
> 

[snip]

> 
> Does anyone have a definitive statement about which of the 3 ways
> above (or some other way !) is the right way to do an install under
> Wine?

Windows does (2) when you dblclick on the install.exe in explorer. 

It does not harm to look into the autorun-something file if it exists.

Rein.
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Rein Klazes
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