[Wine] Re: Can't find the cd drive

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Sat Sep 9 16:02:38 CDT 2006


Jerry Hnidy wrote:
> One month ago, I reformatted this drive and loaded suse Linux using a
> dvd created from a file downloaded from Novell.
> 
> Linux seems to be running fine.  But now I need to install a very old
> windows program.
> 
> I THINK that I have downloaded, installed, and configured wine
> correctly.
> 
> When I click on Applications, System, Terminal, Gnome Terminal and type
> wine, I get a three line instruction that tells me to type the program I
> wish to run behind the wine command.
> 
> My input wine d:\setup results in a file not found although the cd has
> been read by Linux.

Some old Windows installers require that you be in the directory where 
the installation program is. That is:
cd path_to_drive_d
wine setup.exe

You also might need to change the Wine "Windows Version" to win98, using 
winecfg.




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