[Wine] 'Setup cannot find necessary files' message
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 19 21:04:11 CST 2009
fmp_user wrote:
> The installation CD appears in .wine/dosdevices/d:, which is a link to a block device and has brw-rw---- permissions.
>
> There are actually 2 setup.exe files on the installation CD. One is a 40kb DOS/Windows executable which returns the 'Setup cannot find the necessary files' msg when opened with WINE. It's -rw-r--r--.
>
It does not matter if the files can be written to, the device should be
mounted ro (read-ony) thus the error should occur.
James McKenzie
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