WARNING: it is 3 in the night, and the better part of me said I should have got some sleep before answering.
Am Sonntag, den 13.11.2005, 23:53 +0100 schrieb Peter Berg Larsen: >Use one Harddisk, install windows on "C:" and your Programs on "D:". >Add a second Harddisk with a Primary Partition (Drive-Letter has changed >from "D:" to "E:") and see, how many Programs are broken. Every program that uses absolute paths. > > But neither wiki or the docs said anything about this, which was why I > > asked. > Is the warning "Do not use your existing Windows installation as C: in > wine" gone? Properly not, but I do not see this a relevant to me or the question. More below. On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Can you run a program that you installed on wine in windows? I do not think there is a correlation between this and my questions as "Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs alongside any Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux.". Ms does not state the opposite. (I think is the word "alongside" I am reading wrong here; I would have used "on" or "installed on") > You program looking for "c:\Program Files\". That means "Program Files" > directory on drive c: For wine (in default configuration) c: drive means > ~/.wine/drive_c. Or more precisely where ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: points > to. Answer below. > > with; wine does not support running a program installed under > > /mnt/windows/ I would only had to ask once. > Of corse it does. If you can make program look for it's files somewhere > else. Because that's what you are doing. The path is hardcoded, so I cannot change the behaviour of the program. > And like I've mentioned before, please, don't run programs directly from > your windows drive. That won't make it any better. But that might brake > your windows. Hmm, no you said: > Please never point your c: drive to the real windows drive - that won't > help wine at all but it might brake your windows beyond repair. The difference to me is: A) do not /mnt/windows/program files/railroad tycoon 3 > wine rt3.exe and do not have B) /home/pebl/.wine/dosdevices > ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 pebl pebl 10 Nov 10 17:21 c: -> /mnt/windows/ A implies that I cannot run programs installed under windows. B implies that wine is writing something (to registry whatever) to c: which will brake windows. (Note: B is not my setup) Plenty who have answered have stated B, but I do not see what this has to do with wines ability to run a program installed under windows. As it does not state on the wiki nor the docs that I must have installed the program under wine to expect it to run, I expected wine to do clever things to get it rigth. Like looking in both places or noticing the path of the exe. In either case I had a program that this "clever" mechanism did not worked for, and as I could find any thing clever part in wine I asked wine-devel and not wine-user. Peter
