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Old 09-19-2005, 08:23 AM   #1
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? about wine.


Hello I read in another topic about if I want to play a game with wine I just have to copy all the
dir's over from the disk's to my home dir.

So if home is this /home/timmy/ I would have /home/timmy/jedi/.

So the question I have is how do I get the second disk to work it has all the same dir's as the
first disk. Do I just put a /home/timmy/jedi/disk1 and a /jedi/disk2.

Any help would be great thank..
 
Old 09-19-2005, 03:45 PM   #2
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Wine works by emulating the filesystem of a win machine by mapping the drive letters to the appropriate place in your /home directory,... a fake C: D: or E: drive if you will... You don't actually need to copy the CDs, just install from the CDs onto your fake windoze drive.
 
Old 09-19-2005, 08:51 PM   #3
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So make a /home/timmy/c_drive?
And then install it their what do I use the wine to run the install off the cd?
 
Old 09-26-2005, 12:37 PM   #4
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If you have used the wine installer that guides you through the compilation process, rather than doing the standard './configure && make && make install' routine, wine should have already created the fake windows drives for you. They should be located at /home/username/.wine/drive_c, unless you've changed the default settings. If you had NOT used the wine installer, I have heard that running 'winecfg' creates those directories for you, though I did not try doing that on my own.

Moreover, all that the fake C: drive does for you is create directories to hold the windows dlls, so that when you run a program under wine, it can find these dlls the same way it would find them in windows. As far as installing and running windows programs, it is often a safer bet to copy over the entire program directory from a windows machine either through a LAN connection or by using the ntfs drivers if dual-booting. You don't need to copy it in the drive hierarchy created by wine, any directory will do. Just run it with 'wine winexec.exe' and it should work fine as long as the fake C: drive was setup during the install.

Unfortunately, my knowledge is not too extensive in this topic, so if you experience difficulty, you might want to google for a wine tutorial. Specific tutorials for installing your game in wine might be available too.
 
  


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