Any success with Wine and Linux Mandrake 8.0?

Romanator bysh at rogers.com
Sat Nov 24 13:42:27 CST 2001


lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Romanator wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps I should rephrase the question. There is a problem or anomaly
> > with the Wine setup. The Wine setup does an automatic search for the
> > Windows or winnt path only. Rather than typing in a new path, why not
> > click on the button and have it change from /mnt/win_c to /mnt/win_d
> > rather than other, and have the system paths stay the same.
> > I have winnt4 installed on c drive or /mnt/win_c but I want access to
> > /mnt/win_d.
> >
> > On the second step of winesetup, I clicked on the button and select
> > other. In the path, I typed in /mnt/win_d
> > When I select /mn/win_d, the Wine setup changed the paths and profiles
> > to F:\Windows. I have Windows NT4 SP6a installed.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> Oh, for heaven's sake!  Edit ~/.wine/config yourself, and set the
> "Path"= and drives to be how you want them if you can't get the setup
> tools to read your mind.
> 
> Lawson
> ---oof---

Yes. I know all about "Path" = /mnt/win_d
I was looking for some constructive help rather than a put down. 

Roman



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