Question about ~/.wine/dosdevices/

[Evil]

I would not point my WINE C: to an actual Windows installation C: drive
- you're likely to end up with lots problems, if it works at all.

Run winecfg and create another drive letter pointing to /mnt/windows
(let's say 'h:' for this example).  Use that drive letter if you have to
give your programs any paths.  You can even create a batch script that
executes when you start Windows that uses the 'assign' command to mirror
h: to c: under Windows - in case an application stores full paths in an
INI in the program directory.

What I've always done on my home system is to install Windows on a
separate partition from Windows applications (and put data on a third
partition).  By doing this, it was pretty easy for me to use the exact
same drive letters for the apps under both WINE and Windows.

-Jesse



Peter Berg Larsen wrote:

>I am missing the idear behind how devices are suppose to work. 
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>>From the wiki it seems that the dosdevices/c: is use when installing a 
>program under wine. But how are dosdevices/c: related to my /mnt/windows? 
>Are files first looked up in dosdevices/c: and the in /mnt/windows/ if 
>not found? 
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>The reason I ask is that icewind dale on /mnt/windows/ does a 
>FindFirstFileA("C:/program...") which wine translates to dosdevice/c: and 
>ofcause does not find anything. Am I suppose to make a link to where the 
>program is installed, as if I had installed it with wine? 
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