ouch

[austin987]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Manorba <[email protected]> wrote:

yeah, ok, but why so rude? [Embarassed]

i just asked for some help because i myself screwed it up on the process of configuring wine (mainly because i skipped through the howto very fast) , so it just seemed normal to come here to winehq.
isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?

Vitamin got a bit out of hand, yes, but Wine can't really help you
when you've botched windows that badly.

That said, I'd try a repair install. When I last used Windows, it
seemed to fix problems of that sort. Though, you might have to do a
full reinstall...

Mistakes are the only way we learn .

--
-Austin

[James Mckenzie]

Austin English <[email protected]> at Oct 16, 2008 1:17 PM wrote about Re: [Wine] ouch

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Manorba <[email protected]> wrote:

yeah, ok, but why so rude? [Embarassed]

i just asked for some help because i myself screwed it up on the process of configuring wine (mainly because i skipped through the howto very fast) , so it just seemed normal to come here to winehq.
isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?

Vitamin got a bit out of hand, yes, but Wine can't really help you
when you've botched windows that badly.

If you messed up Windows, Wine cannot help at all, in a vast majority of cases. If you are running Linux in a separate partition and Windows was installed on the NT File System, you are basically out of luck when you go to touch certain things. However, NTHack does run on a special version of Linux .

HOWEVER, if you messed up your Wine directories, you can fix it by simplying moving aside the 'hidden' wine directory (.wine in the user's home directory) and starting over again. This is much less painful than recovering a borked Windows installation. For example, I had to completely wipe a hard drive using a wipe utility and then re-install EVERYTHING including service packs and applications.

Mistakes are the only way we learn .

It is best to learn from OTHERS mistakes, we don't have enough time to make them all.

James McKenzie

[dimesio]

isn't wine exactly one of the ways to get free from M$?

That's precisely why asking for advice about how to fix your Windows install is not appropriate for this forum/list.

[Manorba]

didn't mean to cause trouble, i'm sorry for that.
it's just that i made a stupid move and hoped there was i kind of magical quick fix... like just a messed up init... but really NP with eventually reinstalling it, and that doesn't mean i support M$ or that i think someone from wine owes me a help, really. ya know, just i said above
like someone said, you learn from mistakes... and what really makes me sad is that now i have a perfect and smooth linuxbox (even managed to make the xfi work with alsa) and i'll have to waste time reinstalling that stuff, that for me is nothing more than an xbox or a ps...

then again, sorry...

if i'm allowed one question, has ever wine dealed with logitech steering wheels, force feedback and stuff like that?

[vitamin]

if i'm allowed one question, has ever wine dealed with logitech steering wheels, force feedback and stuff like that?

Ask this question in a separate topic pls. It has nothing to do with the above discussion.