[Wine] Upgrading Wine with VFAT partitions existing

[James E. Lang]

I guess I've been going about things all wrong when it comes to upgrading Wine. 
I have assumed that I could simply install the newer version over the top of 
the older one and that any conversion issues would be addressed on the next 
startup. I see now that is not the case. I have not even seen any mention of 
compatibility issues in the abbreviated release announcements. I need to learn 
what steps need to be performed for each biweekly release to make upgrades go 
smoothly.

I see one major incompatibility issue that could be biting me right now. I came 
to Wine about two years ago with an existing set of 14 Win98 partitions (C; 
through P:). When a new installation of Wine takes place directory 
.wine/dosdevices is not made to use of any of these but rather a soft link from 
c: to .wine/drive_c is created. Directory .wine/drive_c does not contain any of 
*my* windows stuff. How important is it that .wine/dosdevices/c: link to 
.wine/drive_c rather than to *my* Win98 C: partition? It looks like it is very 
important but then, where should my Win98 C: partition go? I don't see how they 
can both be on the same link.

Help will be appreciated.

I don't know whether the above explains my problems with Pegasus Mail running 
in the background without even a task bar reference on Wine versions 0.9.10 
through 0.9.13.

-- 
Jim