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Old 09-25-2005, 03:11 PM   #1
peterbrowne
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Wine won't run - "c:\\windows" is not accessible.

I'm havoing a bit of a problem

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$ wine googletalk-setup.exe
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system" is not accessible.
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/peter/Desktop', starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot open (null)
 
Old 09-25-2005, 05:03 PM   #2
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Please move to correct forum :sorry:
 
Old 09-25-2005, 10:53 PM   #3
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What does ~/.wine/dosdevices or $HOME/.wine/dosdevices list?
 
  


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