"David" == David Goodenough David.Goodenough@dga.co.uk writes:
David> I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his David> Linux laptop. Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable David> level) but when I try to run the installer, which says it is David> InstallShield, it gets to 99% and stops, and the console says David> that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV.
David> Firstly I can think of no good reason for InstallShield to want David> this (can anyone else, as far as I know this game - Star Trek David> Elite Force - does not have a print facility), and secondly what David> do you think is my best route fix the problem. There are some David> Windows machines (98/ME/NT4) in the house, I am using Win 98 mode David> in Wine, which machine should I copy WINSPOOL.DRV from if it will David> help?
Wine won't load a "XXX.drv" file...
Don't expect "installshit^eld" applications to behave sane. Probably some debugging is needed. But expect relay loga of several 100 MByte.
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