[Wine]Newbie

[Tom Skeren]

Joachim von Thadden wrote:

>Am Di, Dez 28, 2004 at 04:53:10 -0800 schrieb Thomas M. Skeren III:
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>>>Am Mo, Dez 27, 2004 at 08:45:02 -0800 schrieb Tom Skeren:
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>>>>I'm very new to wine, like Saturday to be exact.  Any way, I'm having 
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>>>Use WineTools to install software and get a good working configuration:
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>>I'll look into it.  Any success using this with Free BSD?
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>Never tried. I have non installed here. But WineTools need only bash and
>brings it own Xdialog. This is a Linux binary so you probably have to
>link a BSD one into WineTools directory.
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There is a port for winetools in FBSD, but it's for 1.25.  Here's what 
occured while using:

On FBSD after linking wt gives error:

    lildude# wt
/usr/local/bin/wt: 89: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

On SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal Edition:
    winetools fails to install ie6.  When using an English copy of 
ie6setup.exe, winetools warns of the need to mount a cd, but a cd is 
mounted.  I noticed that winetools made a d:: directory, but linked it 
to /dev/cdr0 or something.  However, the correct device link is 
/dev/by-id/Some-system-generated-file-name.  I relinked d:: to the 
correct spot, however, running ie6setup gave same warning.  Allowing 
winetools to mount the drive failed.  I umount -f /media/cdrom and 
remount it.  This does no good, and again ie6setup fails. 

Unfortunately, I had a good install of Office 2000 using wine, and now I 
cannot install it.  Guess I should not have deleted the old install.

But that leads to anothe problem.  Unlike FBSD where /home is linked to 
/usr/home, /home on SuSE (and other Linux's) is /.  Well this is 
problematic for those who setup our partitions the good ol' BSD way.  
Like this:

/dev/hda2      3.1g        /
/dev/hda4      25g         /usr
/dev/hda3      11g         /var  ----this is a bit off for BSD but Linux 
uses /var more than BSD by default.

Thus using /home/user/.wine uses quite a bit of a small slice.  It would 
be nice if one could specify a wine install directory. 


The tool has some nice features.  I really love the simulate windows 
reboot...very helpful. 

I guess it's back to the drawing board for me.  Thanks for the help, at 
least I'm begining to understand what wine is doing.

TMS III

>Regards
>	Joachim
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