Help with Ford Service Publications

[fordoldfart]

Hi.New to this. With Xp going out of support didn't want to have to buy new machine for shop. Put Mint ver 16 on and Wine 1.4.1. Problem I am having is with loading Ford service publications. this is an old app used byFord until about 2002. I believe it is an old 16 bit app but it ran well under XP. I run install under Wine and it goes through the normal setup screen but does it really fast. then it says it was succesfull and ends. If I check it has created a file called Ford and a sub-file called pubs. But there is no data in the files. and when you try to configure the app it cannot find an executable. Any help would be appreciated.

[dimesio]

Start by upgrading Wine; your version is old and no longer supported. If your OS is 64 bit, also make sure you install the app to a 32 bit wineprefix. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#32_bit_wineprefix

[fordoldfart]

ok will do my machine is 32 bit.

[fordoldfart]

ok I am now Wine 1.6.1 same results install runs creates folder Ford subfolder Pubs but doesn't populate the folders. what now

[fordoldfart]

wine version 1.6.1 installed same results creates foldes no files in them

[dimesio]

The current development release is 1.7.17; please test that. When testing, do it in a clean wineprefix (delete the old one). If the problem persists, post terminal output. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

[fordoldfart]

Ok wine 1.7.17 has been installed deleted wineprefix results the same. Not sure how to execute install.exe on the cd from terminal with wine

[dimesio]

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

[fordoldfart]

i understand how run the command what I don't know is how to point wine to the cd drive to run install.exe . i am not sure what the cdroms device name is in linux. I haven't been able to find it from terminal.

[dimesio]

Just drag the file from your file manager to the terminal.

[fordoldfart]

Cool got it to run the install.exe and it created log.txt Log.txt has nothing in it. 0 bytes. The cd contains 156 items for 419 Mb. Under windows xp the startup short cut target is info1.ini with dealer_env as an input parm.
I really appreciate all of you folks help.

[fordoldfart]

I do have a debug trace if anyone is interested it is 756K zipped with bzip2

[fordoldfart]

Anybody have any ideas on making this work. Willing to copy cd and send it to some one if that would help.

[dimesio]

There is a very old bug for the Ford Service Manual Viewer, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16592. Take a look at it, and if it seems to be the same problem, add your info to it. Otherwise, file a new bug for your problem.

[fordoldfart]

Thanks for all the help. I added the info to that bug. Somewhat the same. Somewhat not. I hope some one sees it it is very old.