0.9.60 Wine with Ubunto 8.04- Create "S" drive wit

[velocity54]

I am attempting to install a windows base business management program on Wine 0.9.60

I tried to install using the wines windows XP, but ran into shell32.dll problems. Iread Sticky's notations, and switched to wines windows 98. This allowed the setup.exe to move ahead, but when it looked at the S drive location it wanted to install to, it found no allocated space. It needs 483803. I do not see how to allocate specific space in the Wine configuration. The computer I am installing the program on is a client to a Windows XP server, the program requires the S drive.

any thoughts on why it wont install on the XP selection, and the drive problem?

Thanks,
Steve

[vitamin]

I am attempting to install a windows base business management program on Wine 0.9.60

I tried to install using the wines windows XP, but ran into shell32.dll problems. Iread Sticky's notations, and switched to wines windows 98. This allowed the setup.exe to move ahead, but when it looked at the S drive location it wanted to install to, it found no allocated space. It needs 483803. I do not see how to allocate specific space in the Wine configuration. The computer I am installing the program on is a client to a Windows XP server, the program requires the S drive.

any thoughts on why it wont install on the XP selection, and the drive problem?

Thanks,
Steve

It's stupid if it requires an "S:" drive. What if I don't have it? Sounds like standard M$BS. If you absolutely have to have that "S:" drive - map it with winecfg. Of course the place it is pointed to needs to have at least that much space on it.

[velocity54]

Just a point of clarification. The creation and use of the S drive is the vendor requirement. Wine easily allows creating the drive, and perhaps it easily allows the allocating of space for the software to be loaded, but I have not found the solution.

The command setuptbswin1.exe will implement and progress, but stalls at the point of finding the S drive having no allocated space.

Thanks,

Steve

[vitamin]

Just a point of clarification. The creation and use of the S drive is the vendor requirement.

You can add an "s:" drive really easy on Wine:

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ln -s /my/drive_s ~/.wine/dosdevices/s:

Of course replacing "/my/drive_s" with the path where you want your "s: drive" to be.

[velocity54]

Here is the result of copying your code line suggestion into a terminal command and substituting C for S following my/drive:

steve@office-south:~$ ln -s /my/drive_c ~/.wine/dosdevices/s:
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/steve/.wine/dosdevices/s:': File exists

steve@office-south:~$

Wine configuration tab Drives shows S:, my path for Drive Mapping is /drive/_S

So, nothing is changed from the previous condition. Is my path correct?

[vitamin]

Here is the result of copying your code line suggestion into a terminal command and substituting C for S following my/drive:

steve@office-south:~$ ln -s /my/drive_c ~/.wine/dosdevices/s:
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/steve/.wine/dosdevices/s:': File exists

steve@office-south:~$

Wine configuration tab Drives shows S:, my path for Drive Mapping is /drive/_S

So, nothing is changed from the previous condition. Is my path correct?

You asking as? That's your drive - you should know what directory "/drive/_S" is? You can alway remove that S: symlink and recreate it.