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Please can anyone tell me where can i find a good wine tutorial or help for wine with no windows partition on the pc?

Tkx a lot
g0X @ Portugal

http://www.winehq.com/ section support

I've already been there :( what i really like it was an example of a conf file using no windows partition on the pc just to check what's wrong

Tkx

ok the first thing we need to know is what distro you have?

*** this post assumes you are useing red hat 9 !!!***

if you compiled from source you need to do make uninstall and uninstall the source packages.

then go to newrpms.sunsite.dk and get : wine-0.20030508-1.i386.rpm and install it from the console as root using:

rpm -ivh wine-0.20030508-1.i386.rpm

after you do that go to /usr/share/wine-c <------this is where the wine rpm creates your "fake" windows tree.

take your config file that should be located in the wine-c dir and edit where it says [Drive C]

you want to change the very first $PATH statement to:

$PATH=usr/share/wine-c basicly every thing after = needs to be changed in that line to the above.

save your config file then as root go to your directory that contains all your exes for windows usualy:

/whateveryourwindowsdrivemoutpointis/Program Files

and copy all the directories for your windows programs you wish to run to your /usr/share/wine-c/windows/program files directory.

last step:

go to one of your newly transfered program directories and find the .exe and rightclick on it select "open with" and in the text area of the program selection dialog(at the top) type wine and then check "remember this association for files of this type " box and hit ok.

after you hit ok it will take a min while wine does all the font metrics stuff and blammo your running windows programs ;)

the reason you want to install wine using this rpm is that red hat uses nptl and it is VERY difficult to enable this feture of wine using the source even doing ./configure --with-ntpl ends up problematic.

this rpm has all that stuff and opengl support and basicly all the bells and whistles enabled upon install and is easyer to set up!

now the drawback is you have to mirror an accual windows directory tree in your ../wine-c dir and launch all your apps useing the above meteod but once you get all your .exes assoceated with wine, you can link them on the desk top and then starting them is as simple as double clicking on the link and your off!.


hope this helps, good luck!

Hi, could u specify a little more on the Config file part?

From what i can see after installing wine, my config.sys file is empty and i'm not sure how to follow ur instructions....thanx :-)

ok not your config.sys just plain old config located in the same dir as config.sys should be the very first text file in that directory