[Wine] Message from Wine: IOPL not enabled (again)

[Austin English]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Svenn Are
Bjerkem<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> on a dual boot laptop I have winXP and Debian sid/squeeze x86_64 installed. Wine is version 1.0.1. WinXP partition is NTFS and mounted read-only under Debian. I have used winecfg to attach the NTFS partition to my drive E: and use winefile to navigate to the microsoft office 11 binaries on E:. Both winword.exe and excel.exe reports the famous IOPL not enabled message. I have not installed any office related files into my ~/.wine hierarchy. I tried several other windows applications that I have installed on the NTFS partition: Foxit PDF reader starts nicely, Googles Picasa 3 starts nicely, Several programs that I didn't expect to start actually did and Acrobat reader gave me a message that it wanted MSVCR80.dll. Obviously some files needed are not found, but the IOPL warning is only issued by Microsoft apps without further warnings in the Linux console window where I started winefile.
>
> By googling I found a suggestion to switch gdiplus library to windows native mode, this didn't help me out. I looked into appdb on the windows issues but these reports are probably made with office installed into ~/.wine/disk_c I don't have much else but a pristine wine install. Since all the files wine is looking for are all located on my NTFS drive on E:, I wonder how I should proceed to direct wine to look there instead of somewhere else.
>
> I could use a virtual machine, but it is not trivial to make a virtual machine work with an existing NTFS partition of winXP, at least not from what I have found so far on the Net.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.

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-Austin