First time Wine--config problems

Duane Clark junkmail at junkmail.com
Fri Jun 29 15:41:39 CDT 2001


MindTrip wrote:

> Okay, I'm not a programmer, but I'm not new to Unix either--used it years
> and years ago in college before Win 3.1 came out.  So I'm pretty rusty, but
> it IS coming back....
> 
> Here's my problem.
> 
> I'm using Wine-20010510 on SuSE Linux 7.1.  Wine seemed to install fine, but
> every time I try to run it, it says the c:\windows and c:\windows\system
> directories are invalid.  I've double- and triple-checked my ~/.wine/config
> file and compared it to /etc/fstab, and I'm pointing all the drives to their
> appropriate mount points; ie
> 
> /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda1    /windows/c
> /dev/hda2    /windows/d
> /dev/hda3    /windows/e
> 
> 
> ~/.wine/config
> [Drive C]
> Path=/windows/c
> Type=hd
> Label=MS-DOS
> Filesystem=win95
> 
> etc. etc., same for the other windoze partitions.
> 
> But when I run winecheck, it keeps saying no path has been specified in the
> config file.  The drives are mounted--I can access them from the linux
> command prompt just fine, and can see the /windows/c/windows and
> /windows/c/windows/system directories just fine, but wine isn't seeing them.
> I've looked at the FAQ's and HOW-TO's on winehq.com, and I appear to have
> everything set correctly in the config file.  Any suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> Drew Sylvester
> mindtrip at swbell.net
> 
> 
> 

Try this:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/windows/c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "MS-DOS"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

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