is it possible to copy/paste a program into wine dir

Shadowmeph · Post by **Shadowmeph** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:59 am

I have 3 hds and one one hard drive I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one

Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file or directory)

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:32 pm

Shadowmeph wrote:I have 3 hds and one one hard drive

Wait, so you have FOUR HDs? A hard drive is a HD after all...

I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one
Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file or directory)

This is not possible, because Wine is something completely seperate from Windows and thus things like registry entries would be missing if you just straight copied the files from a Windows install. Install the game seperately in Wine.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:38 pm

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM, DaVince<[email protected]> wrote:

I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one

Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file or directory)

This is not possible, because Wine is something completely seperate from Windows and thus things like registry entries would be missing if you just straight copied the files from a Windows install. Install the game seperately in Wine.

If the game is portable in windows, it should be portable in wine.

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-Austin

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:00 pm

I don't believe that there is an official portable version of Diablo 2, though. Someone did hack the app so it could work in a portable fashion, but Wine might not accept it.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:08 pm

Shadowmeph wrote:I have 3 hds and one one hard drive I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one
Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file or directory)

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