[Wine] Re: is it possible to copy/paste a program into wine dir

DaVince wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sat Jul 11 14:32:57 CDT 2009


Shadowmeph wrote:
> I have 3 hds and one one hard drive

Wait, so you have FOUR HDs? A hard drive is a HD after all...


> I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one
> 
> > Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file or directory)
> 

This is not possible, because Wine is something completely seperate from Windows and thus things like registry entries would be missing if you just straight copied the files from a Windows install. Install the game seperately in Wine.







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