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