D drive

[thiebo]

Hello all,

I have installed Wine on Opensuse 10.3 and it works great. I need it to use a historical research program where the utility is on the C:/ drive and the data on the D:/ drive.

So, the program works on a very old Window 98 computer and in order to use it, the CD with data on it must be in the CD drive.

I installed Wine, copied the all the files in /home/me/.wine/c_drive/windows/ according to the install.log file that is present on the old windows 98 computer.

When running the programm with wine, the programm launches, BUT, it asks me to insert the CD in the drive. But the CD is in the drive!

So I tried to change things by running configure wine, and indicating that D:/ is on /home/me/.wine/d_drive

Without success again!

Does anybody have a clue why the program doesn't know where to find D:/ when running on wine?

Many thanks in advance,

Thiebo

[dimesio]

I have installed Wine on Opensuse 10.3 and it works great.

That's a very old distro, and new binary Wine packages haven't been produced for it for quite some time. So what version of Wine are you using? If it's older than 1.2.2, it's no longer supported here.

So I tried to change things by running configure wine, and indicating that D:/ is on /home/me/.wine/d_drive

That path is not correct. In current Wine you should just click Autodetect with the CD already mounted in the drive and it should add it with the correct path.

[thiebo]

sorry, the version of Opensuse that I use is 11.3. The latest version.

When I do autodectect, Wine assigned /home to D...

So I did it manually : /media/NEW, which is the CD and to which Wine assigned drive E.

So I changed all this. Clicked again on autodetect, and D:/ now is /media/NEW so that should be fine. But my program still asks me to insert the CD.

Is it necessary to reboot the computer upon each change made to Wine?

Thanks !!

[thiebo]

OK
so I did reboot. Same problem persisted. And then I checked in configure Wine and Wine assignes both D and E to /media/NEW

Can this be the origin of the problem ?

[dimesio]

Is it necessary to reboot the computer upon each change made to Wine?

No.

You didn't answer my question about what version of Wine you're using. If it's not the latest development release, upgrade.

I also notice you said you copied the program folder rather than installing it. Unless this app is a simple exe that just runs without installing, it needs to be installed in Wine, just as it would in Windows.

Delete ~/.wine, install your program properly, and use autodetect to set the drives. If the problem persists, run it from a terminal and post whatever messages appear.

[thiebo]

Sorry and many thanks for your replies. The version of wine that I use is 1.2.

I'm deleting .wine et try to reinstall using wine...

[thiebo]

hmmmm.... it doesn't work

I removed .wine from my personal directory. Then inserted the CD in the drive, opened "wine configuration" and than "add application" and selected the .exe on the CD.

Nothing happened, which is not surprising since the CD is not the installation CD but only the CD with data. This is why I copied the files.

I therefore copy files as indicated in the instal.log of my previous computer into the corresponding directories of the .wine/ directory.

The program launches fine and everything works, but I still get the message telling me to insert the disk in the drive. It is in the drive and in wine configuration, the D:/ is assigned to /media/NEW/

I don't understand....

[dimesio]

hmmmm.... it doesn't work

I removed .wine from my personal directory. Then inserted the CD in the drive, opened "wine configuration" and than "add application" and selected the .exe on the CD.

Nothing happened, which is not surprising since the CD is not the installation CD but only the CD with data. This is why I copied the files.

You have to run the installer, just as you would in Windows. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f351523 ... 8da63be66f