[Wine] Install Wine's fake-windows directory in different place

Dietmar Hiller hillerd at tiscali.de
Thu Jan 25 15:21:41 CST 2007


> Am Donnerstag, den 25.01.2007, 20:14 +0000 schrieb Ian Couchman:
> > On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:45, Dietmar Hiller wrote:
> > > By default Wine installs its fake-windows part into $HOME.
> > > I want rather have it on a separate partition, that I mount as /wine.
> > > How can I do this?
> > >
> > > What I have found was:
> > > http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Changing_
> > >the_location_of_Wine.27s_installation
> > >
> > > My steps so far:
> > > - Installed Wine with Synaptic
> > > - # wineprefixcreate --prefix /wine
> > >   - I find the fake directory where I want it!
> > > - WINEPREFIX=/wine export WINEPREFIX
> > > - winecfg
> > >   - still all fine up to here
> > > - double-click (in Nautilus) on the setup.exe of the windows program for
> > > installation
> > >   - installer runs
> > >   - I find the .wine in $HOME has been created.
> > >
> > > Maybe I am trying something impossible since I was not able to find any
> > > hint on this?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > 	Dietmar
> > > PS: running on Ubuntu 6.10
> > 
> > Run winecfg. Select the Drives tab. Highlight C: Change the path to point to 
> > the partion you want. 
> > Ian
> 
> First, I am impressed by your response time. That is very much
> appreciated!!!
> Ian's solution looks nicest to me.
> So I copied "drive_c" to /wine, changed the path in winecfg, deleted
> (no, just renamed for the moment) $HOME/drive_c. Up to now everything is
> runng fine. 
> Thanks a lot for these quick and helpful support.
> 
> Dietmar




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