[Wine] Starting WINE

[Austin English]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, sgtbob <rrunion at cox.net> wrote:
>
>  I tried your suggestion and met with varying results - but still reading and
>  trying.
>
>  I have two identical 160 GB HDD's - one with Windows installed and one with
>  Ubuntu installed. Can you tell me if the .exe has to reside on the windows
>  drive or on the Ubuntu drive?  I have met with limited results in trying to
>  do a wine Legacy6Setup.exe from the terminal - basically says not
>  available...
>
>  I 'think' I was able to install the Legacy program by putting it on my
>  Ubuntu desktop, but when I tried to run it, I encountered an 'error 545 ' or
>  some such number. I have been able to access the 'C:' drive, which I presume
>  is on the Windows HDD, but when I try to open a file from Legacy (eg.
>  Bob.fdb - which is my genealogy file), the only .fdb seen is one that is a
>  sample.fdb that came with the program, which will not load, even though I
>  can see teh fiel I want if I go to Windows.
>
>  Maybe I'm expecting too much from Wine with my limited knowledge of Linux.
>  What I had hoped to do was to use my Ubuntu to work with files and programs
>  installed on my Windows HDD with the Ubuntu Wine package. Am I
>  misinterpreting what it should/would do?
>


Do not run programs from an NTFS drive/windows installation. Run the
setup in Ubuntu, and run it from wine's virtual drive_c.