not enough space((

[ridle]

hello everyone. I tried installing The witcher on fedora 10 using wine. The problem is my primary partition has 600 mb less free space than needed((is there anyway to install the game directly into other partition? When i get to choose where to install it i only can access other partitions through /media/disk1/... so it still thinks I'm installing on this primary partition.
My Primary partition with fedora on it is /dev/sda2 ext3 , and I also have created /dev/sda4 ext2 as an extended partition for games))now its currently empty))so Is there a way to directly install on sda4?))Thanks a lot)
P.s. Btw I'm a newbie in all this stuff just googling almost every second step so please don't get anry at me ;P

[eps]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:20 AM, ridle <[email protected]> wrote:

hello everyone. I tried installing The witcher on fedora 10 using wine. The problem is my primary partition has 600 mb less free space than needed((is there anyway to install the game directly into other partition? When i get to choose where to install it i only can access other partitions through /media/disk1/... so it still thinks I'm installing on this primary partition.
My Primary partition with fedora on it is /dev/sda2 ext3 , and I also have created /dev/sda4 ext2 as an extended partition for games))now its currently empty))so Is there a way to directly install on sda4?))Thanks a lot)
P.s. Btw I'm a newbie in all this stuff just googling almost every second step so please don't get anry at me ;P

There really should be a better solution to this but the quickest way
is to create a new 'fake hard drive' in wine.

winecfg -> drives -> add -> select a letter -> modify path to the
partition you want to install to -> close all wine related
applications (so settings take effect).

This new 'hard drive' will show up as the letter number you assigned
when you try to install some thing.

[ridle]

well the thing is I tried that, in winecfg I have C;D;E;and Z
C and Z are normal ones. Both D and E came with auto detect, but installer still doesn't see them(((

[ridle]

also when I add file it doesn't give me a choice of choosing a letter for it if that is relevant. I can only choose path which I set to /media/disk

[ridle]

ok the problem was solved when I logged in as root))now i see "fake hard drive" just wondering is there a way to get to this result without logging in as root?

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 11:20 -0500, ridle wrote:

hello everyone. I tried installing The witcher on fedora 10 using wine.
The problem is my primary partition has 600 mb less free space than needed
(is there anyway to install the game directly into other partition? When i get
to choose where to install it i only can access other partitions through
/media/disk1/... so it still thinks I'm installing on this primary partition.
My Primary partition with fedora on it is /dev/sda2 ext3 , and I also have
created /dev/sda4 ext2 as an extended partition for games))now its currently
empty))so Is there a way to directly install on sda4?))Thanks a lot)

Where is the games partition mounted?
How is it mounted, i.e. via fstab at boot time or some other way?
Showing us the output from 'df' would be helpful too.


Martin

[ridle]

Here is the output from df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 15717696 6997424 7921844 47% /
tmpfs 1556504 1632 1554872 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 57234140 989912 53336868 2% /media/disk
/dev/sda5 71931004 65878464 6052540 92% /media/disk-1
/dev/sda1 10241404 7630140 2611264 75% /media/disk-2
As I said I set my games partition on sda4, while sda2 is the one with fedora on it. Well it is mounted to sda2 as i believe, i mean i have to enter root password when opening it through dolphin

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 11:43 -0500, ridle wrote:

also when I add file it doesn't give me a choice of choosing a letter for it if that is relevant. I can only choose path which I set to /media/disk

Since you have a separate games partition, why don't you:

- make sure it mounts at boot time as, say /games
- create a 'games' user with its login directory set to /games
- login as this user whenever you want to install or play a game.


Martin

[ridle]

[/quote]Since you have a separate games partition, why don't you:

- make sure it mounts at boot time as, say /games
- create a 'games' user with its login directory set to /games
- login as this user whenever you want to install or play a game.


Martin[/quote]

Thanks, but it's easier for me just to login as root instead then)))
Thanks anyway)))

[dimesio]

Thanks, but it's easier for me just to login as root instead then)))

Don't do that. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa ... 78b0d41014

To install to somewhere other than ~/.wine: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-faf9617 ... 522d490faf

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:44 -0500, ridle wrote:

Here is the output from df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 15717696 6997424 7921844 47% /
tmpfs 1556504 1632 1554872 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 57234140 989912 53336868 2% /media/disk
/dev/sda5 71931004 65878464 6052540 92% /media/disk-1
/dev/sda1 10241404 7630140 2611264 75% /media/disk-2
As I said I set my games partition on sda4, while sda2 is the one with fedora on it.

That's an unusual way to set things up. Normally /media is only used for
removable disks. Partitions on your internal hard drives are normally
described in /etc/fstab so they'll mount automatically at boot time.

You might want to rearrange your system to work that way. Hint: by
selecting a 'Custom' disk layout the Linux installer sorts that all out
for you - you just say what partitions you want, whether to format them
and which format to use and what the mount point is to be. Once that's
done its doine and can be forgotten.

i mean i have to enter root password when opening it through dolphin

Running anything as root is a very bad idea indeed: its root kit heaven.
Running anything under Wine as root is even worse because it lets
viruses straight in.

Do yourself a favour, set all your internal disk partitions up as I said
above and create a special games user for access to the /games
partition. And *never* do anything as root apart from sysadmin type
tasks.


Martin

[ridle]

ok, I'l start working on that, thanks a lot people)))
P.s. Hopefully by morning i will finish and get some sleep)