Change drive C:'s path

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nicholas.alipaz
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Change drive C:'s path

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Wine config has this disabled, however I need to change this for ONE of the programs I am running. I know what I am doing, I just need to know how to alter this configuration option for one of my applications.

I have added the application in wine configuration and then specified the operating system to use.

I go to the Drives tab and C:'s path is greyed out, keeping me from changing it. I am sure this is some sort of safety feature, but I need to change it. How can I do it?

Thanks in Advance.
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Change drive C:'s path

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, nicholas.alipaz
<[email protected]> wrote:
Wine config has this disabled, however I need to change this for ONE of the programs I am running. I know what I am doing, I just need to know how to alter this configuration option for one of my applications.

I have added the application in wine configuration and then specified the operating system to use.

I go to the Drives tab and C:'s path is greyed out, keeping me from changing it. I am sure this is some sort of safety feature, but I need to change it. How can I do it?

Thanks in Advance.





Out of curiosity, what program is this? Why does it require it?

You can manually do this in ~/.wine/dos_devices

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Maxthon

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It is maxthon. it needs the path to C: to be ies4linux path.
http://forum.maxthon.com/viewthread.php?tid=73017

I don't really see/understand how I should go about changing the path in the .wine/dos_devices
I simply have a bunch of links to directories. How would I edit the path for only one application (Maxthon)?

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Change drive C:'s path

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:48 PM, nicholas.alipaz
<[email protected]> wrote:
It is maxthon. it needs the path to C: to be ies4linux path.
http://forum.maxthon.com/viewthread.php?tid=73017
You don't have to change the C: path for this, just use ies4linux's prefix.
I don't really see/understand how I should go about changing the path in the .wine/dos_devices
I simply have a bunch of links to directories. How would I edit the path for only one application (Maxthon)?
You can't change it just for one app, only for the whole prefix.


FWIW, I tried the app. Installs fine, needs winetricks mfc42. After
that, runs, but didn't seem to load web pages. File a bug please,
seems to be in mshtml.
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Change drive C:'s path

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On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:48:03 -0600
"nicholas.alipaz" <[email protected]> wrote:
It is maxthon. it needs the path to C: to be ies4linux path.
http://forum.maxthon.com/viewthread.php?tid=73017
Its not very well written not that I can talk.

env WINEPREFIX="/home/<your main folder>/.ies4linux/ie6" winecfg

If you do not put that in winecfg will look for the prefix in ~/.wine

btw you may want to read http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=12005
and make should your using the newest version of wine.
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