[Wine] how do I get it working ?

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:48 PM, rob.rice <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I have a almost fresh install of windows XP on /dev/hdb1
>  ( it was installed on another computer and I moved the drive to my linux computer )
>  windows was booting on the other computer
>  it was installer with a FAT 32 file system so linux has no problems with the file system on the windows partition
>  the wine package came from linuxpkgs
>  I would like to use the windows *.dlls where ever I can
>  so far all I have gotten to run is winecfg
>  what is this error message about
>  "fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL"
>  and how do I fix this error
>  "Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible."
>  I don't know what I will do with it I just want it working at this point
>

Why are you trying to use windows dlls? Wine ships with its own.
Reinstall your apps in wine, don't run them from a windows partition.

First off, since it sounds like your setup is questionable at best:
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ wine setup.exe # install your program here