[Wine] Newbie needs help

Graeme Nichols gnichols at tpg.com.au
Wed Jan 23 22:36:47 CST 2008


David Mohr wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 8:57 PM, Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>> Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
>>> someone else can probably speak to this better than me but there is a
>>> .wine folder.  I don't have my Linux box on at the moment, so I can't
>>> tell you for certain.  do an ls -a on your home dir and see if anything
>>> wine related is there.  What you need to do is put the floppy contents
>>> in the correct folder on the fake Windoze install.  Let me know if that
>>> doesn't help and I'll fire up the other box and take a look.
>> Hello Douglas, thank you.
>>
>> This may seem pretty dumb, but what is the fake Windoze install? The
>> only Windoze install I have is XP on my hda. My F8 is on hdb.
> 
> So you said you changed your C: drive in winecfg. So on my machine C:
> is set to "../drive_c", but if you want to go the save route, just
> delete ~/.wine and start wine which will create a fresh configuration.
> Then copy your ccw/ directory to ~/.wine/drive_c, and run it by "cd
> ~/.wine/drive_c/ccw && wine ccw.exe".
> 
> ~David

Hello David, James,

Thank you very much. Your instructions were spot on. It is all working 
just fine now.

And thanks to the list for such willingness to help a wine newbie so 
quickly.

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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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