using a cross partition WINEPREFIX

[kayve]

I have been told that the way to utilize the somewhat strange way my Ubuntu is set up is to use the WINEPREFIX. I have some windoze programs that need to know about each other so they need to be in the same drive_c

Here are pertinent specifics of my system:

root@kayve-laptop:/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca/home/kayve# mount | grep ext4
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
/dev/sda1 on /media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
root@kayve-laptop:/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca/home/kayve# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 124G 98G 20G 84% /
none 1.9G 300K 1.9G 1% /dev
none 1.9G 1.3M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.9G 220K 1.9G 1% /var/run
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sr0 239M 239M 0 100% /media/CB80
/dev/sda1 319G 219G 84G 73% /media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca
root@kayve-laptop:/media/2c512d2e-fcf5-4ef5-8200-e3c79a8a1aca/home/kayve#

/dev/sda1 was the original Ubuntu system on the disk that I installed into my laptop

http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/x ... 0126.vhtml

all contained on the above disk also is /dev/sda6, as seen in the above df -h and also they are both ext4. Note that /dev/sda1 has more than twice the space and more than 4 times the amount of free space. Therefore, I was hoping to use WINEPREFIX to redirect my wine installation of my application constellation. However, I am feeling wary of the fact that when I created the soft link, attempting to chown the directory to my user has failed.

http://kayve.net/old_part_root.png

My original attempts too utilize wine failed and I am not sure how to explain this, well, I understand the security concerns of using wine under root.

Is the solution just chmod 770 and create a group for the symbolic link? How can I force my applications to utilize the symbolic link with the proper permissions? Is there any problem here I should just set the WINEPREFIX variable and run wine setup.exe? Should I save my CD data under the drive_c directory?

[DanKegel]

I have no idea what you're talking about

What apps are you trying to use?

What happens when you install them with Wine?

[vitamin]

Is there any problem here I should just set the WINEPREFIX variable and run wine setup.exe?

Yes, that is the easiest and foolproof way.

Should I save my CD data under the drive_c directory?

No need.