[Wine] WindowsInstaller doesn find Volume to extract

[James Hawkins]

On 3/15/07, Joe Baker <joebaker at dcresearch.com> wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > On 3/14/07, Gunnar Thielebein <gunnar_thielebein at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Hi all!
> >>
> >> I have wine running in version
> >>
> >> app-emulation/wine-0.9.29
> >>
> >> I have setup the environment via regedit:
> >>
> >> TEMP=C:\temp --> REG_SZ and tried with both on and two backslashes.
> >>
> >> dir also exists
> >>
> >> -=>>ls .wine/drive_c/temp -la
> >> insgesamt 8
> >> drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 14. Mär 18:20 .
> >>
> >> and within /wineconsole cmd/
> >>
> >> and /set/ I see environment:
> >>
> >> TEMP=C:\temp
> >> TERM=xterm
> >> TMP=C:\temp
> >>
> >> but on installing WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe i get error
> >> message from installer
> >>
> >> "unable to find a volume for
> >> file extraction. please verify that you have permissions."
> >>
> >> mdac installation worked fine after env temp was set.
> >> So where looks this installer for tmp directory?
> >>
> >
> > Is .wine on a network drive (like NFS)?
> >
> Why do you ask if it is on NFS?
> I use NFS allot.
> Does this make a difference?
> All my users access their home drives over NFS.
>
> Maybe this is why I had problems installing WordPerfect before.
>

A lot of Microsoft installers won't install to network drives.  To
workaround this, go to winecfg->Drives->Advanced for each network
drive and change the type from 'auto' to 'local'.

-- 
James Hawkins