First time Wine--config problems

[MindTrip]

"Duane Clark" <junkmail at junkmail.com> wrote in message
news:3B3CE803.7000203 at junkmail.com...
> 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"
>
> --
> My real email is akamail.com at dclark (or something like that).
>
>

Thanks, that worked great.  No probs now with wine, except.......   Now when
I try to install things like Half-Life or You Don't Know Jack, 5th Dementia,
it keeps saying it needs DirectX 7.0 or higher.  I have DirectX 8.0a
installed--should I uninstall it and go back to DirectX 7.0?  Of note, I
have had problems with DirectX 8.0 not being recognized, which is why I
upgraded to 8.0a.  Or is wine simply not compatable with DirectX???