[Wine] Install Wine's fake-windows directory in different place

[Ian Couchman]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:45, Dietmar Hiller wrote:
> By default Wine installs its fake-windows part into $HOME.
> I want rather have it on a separate partition, that I mount as /wine.
> How can I do this?
>
> What I have found was:
> http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Changing_
>the_location_of_Wine.27s_installation
>
> My steps so far:
> - Installed Wine with Synaptic
> - # wineprefixcreate --prefix /wine
>   - I find the fake directory where I want it!
> - WINEPREFIX=/wine export WINEPREFIX
> - winecfg
>   - still all fine up to here
> - double-click (in Nautilus) on the setup.exe of the windows program for
> installation
>   - installer runs
>   - I find the .wine in $HOME has been created.
>
> Maybe I am trying something impossible since I was not able to find any
> hint on this?
>
> Thanks
> 	Dietmar
> PS: running on Ubuntu 6.10

Run winecfg. Select the Drives tab. Highlight C: Change the path to point to 
the partion you want. 
Ian