On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Michael Druing wrote:
If you don't want to install the game in wine but rather use an existing Windows installation you should either copy and/or link to your existing installation, but bear in mind that this might - as others have already pointed out - break your installation on windows for some reason or another and is generally not suggested.
Ah, ah. This is where I complete fail in my understanding. I had the idea that wine was able to run any window program (modulo registry etc.) no matter how I did the install. You are saing "do not run a windows program unless you installed the program with wine"? (or atleast do not expect it to work).
Wine cannot guess where your existing windows partition is mounted.
I saw three solution for that: A) It look at ~/.wine/c:/ and then in /mnt/windows/ B) Notices that the program started in a /mnt/windows/ path. C) If installed under /mnt/windows/ you must manual make some extra links.
But neither wiki or the docs said anything about this, which was why I asked.
Peter
Am Sonntag, den 13.11.2005, 23:53 +0100 schrieb Peter Berg Larsen:
Ah, ah. This is where I complete fail in my understanding. I had the idea that wine was able to run any window program (modulo registry etc.) no matter how I did the install.
This is TRUE, but that depends on the Program! 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.
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?
PS: This is related to "wine-users", not "wine-devel"
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Detlef Riekenberg -
Peter Berg Larsen