[Wine] Moving wine's C: drive to another file system

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon May 31 17:06:05 CDT 2010


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 6:03 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I ran an installer and installed a program to "C:/Program Files" and it put it right back in the origional drive_c folder. So i went ahead and linked the origional drive_c to the new partition's drive_c and things seemed to be working, programs installed ok, but when I run them they come back with the same "This program has encountered a serious problem and needs to close" error. This is way too complicated...
>>
>
> Install and run your program from the terminal. When things are not
> working this is what you need to do to be able to get help.
>
> Start reading the FAQ here:
>
> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-13df66c18b6efa2231f44e11d1e31a1479c880f5
>

I forgot to mention. Make sure you use your prefix.

export WINEPREFIX=/media/Wine

before you start your installation from the terminal.

John



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