Could not determine operating system. Exiting.

[Robert Shearman]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:

>Thursday, October 27, 2005, 1:06:01 PM, Pavel Troller wrote:
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>>>>  So what I need now, is an exact string, which NT4.0 put to the OS envvar.
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>>>You was really close: OS=Windows_NT
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>>Hi!
>>  Thanks, it's really what the program was checking for!
>>  Now the installation proceeded and even succeeded without a glitch!
>>  However, the installed program doesn't run :-(.
>>
>>  It requires to start the service first. The following occurs:
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>>patrol at arcus:~/.wine/drive_c/SYSD$ wine Sysd.exe -1 -start
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>That does not work ATM on Wine. Wine can't handle any services because there is
>no infrastructure at all to support them.
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Services should work, even though the architecture is technically wrong.

>Me and several other people working on this, but this will not be available for
>some time. Also I'm not sure what that service does, but if that is some kind of
>hardware driver - this will not work. As our goal to have only "self contained"
>drivers working (those that for most part allow something that you normally can
>not do on winNT from user space).
>

That isn't what the above program is doing.

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Rob Shearman