Wine not seeing my drive?

pjwalsh · Post by **pjwalsh** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:20 pm

I'm running Wine on a new installation of Fedora 8. Fedora is installed on a separate drive from Windows XP. When I open the Wine config app and go to Applications / Add application... it shows a C: drive. When I click on C: there are two folders, Program Files and Windows. Under Program Files however there are only two folders, neither of which contain anything. I can't find any of my Windows programs.

The Windows drive is visible and explorable from Fedora. What am I missing?

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:44 pm

pjwalsh wrote:

I'm running Wine on a new installation of Fedora 8. Fedora is installed on a separate drive from Windows XP. When I open the Wine config app and go to Applications / Add application... it shows a C: drive. When I click on C: there are two folders, Program Files and Windows. Under Program Files however there are only two folders, neither of which contain anything. I can't find any of my Windows programs.

The Windows drive is visible and explorable from Fedora. What am I missing?

You have to install your Windows programs into Wine. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
RUN WINDOWS PROGRAMS FROM YOUR WINDOWS C: DRIVE. THIS WILL NOT WORK.

James McKenzie

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:46 pm

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:20 PM, pjwalsh <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm running Wine on a new installation of Fedora 8.
Fedora is installed on a separate drive from Windows XP.
When I open the Wine config app and go to Applications / Add application...

First off, why are you dong Applications / Add application?
FYI, that's not how you install applications (though I can see
why you might think it were).

it shows a C: drive [but] I can't find any of my Windows programs.

The Windows drive is visible and explorable from Fedora. What am I missing?

The Wine C: drive is never the same as your Window C: drive.

To run applications under Wine, you have to install them under Wine;
you can't run the apps you already have installed on Windows.

You *can* access the data files from your Windows drive as long
as it's mounted. By default, Wine uses Z: to refer to the Linux
filesystem, so if your windows drive is mounted is /media/foobar,
browse to Z:\media\foobar.

Does that help?
- Dan

pjwalsh · Post by **pjwalsh** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:36 am

First off, why are you dong Applications / Add application?

Umm, maybe because of the instructions on page 8 of the Wine User Guide? Seems like the Applications tab would be better discussed in the "Running Wine" section.

After reading the Quick Start section again I do see a reference to installing packages. I don't think I've ever heard Windows apps referred to as "packages" but I guess I could have surmised that's what it meant.

Thanks for the clarification.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:33 pm

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:36 AM, pjwalsh <[email protected]> wrote:

First off, why are you dong Applications / Add application?
Umm, maybe because of the instructions on page 8 of the Wine User Guide?

You mean here?
http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-gui ... NG-WINECFG

Seems like the Applications tab would be better discussed in the "Running Wine" section.

After reading the Quick Start section again I do see a reference to installing packages. I don't think I've ever heard Windows apps referred to as "packages" but I guess I could have surmised that's what it meant.

Yeah, the user guide needs help.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:25 am

Yeah, the user guide needs help.

That's one area where I may be able to help. The fact that I'm not a programmer may be an advantage here--I can see things with the eyes of a new user, and spot areas of confusion that may not be readily apparent to people who know what they're doing. Spring semester will be over for me in two weeks, so I'll have some free time to work on it. So, if you'll have me, what do I need to do to get started?

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:02 am

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:25 AM, dimesio <[email protected]> wrote:

Yeah, the user guide needs help.
That's one area where I may be able to help. The fact that I'm not a programmer may be an advantage here--I can see things with the eyes of a new user, and spot areas of confusion that may not be readily apparent to people who know what they're doing. Spring semester will be over for me in two weeks, so I'll have some free time to work on it. So, if you'll have me, what do I need to do to get started?

I'd say add new entries into the FAQ in the wiki. For each thing that
was a surprise to you, add
a question and answer to the end of the FAQ. Put the word "DRAFT" at
the start of the
question and answer to let us know it might need editing by experts later.
Thanks!