Help installing wine please

robcult731 · 03-18-2007, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

I assume you did mount your CDROM first on /mnt/cdrom and verified that there was indeed a file called /mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz before you tried to install it?

Eric

I did try to mount it but got cannot create directory '/mnt/cdrom' : File exists

?

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-18-2007, 11:35 AM

I believe it should be:

Code:

installpkg /mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
or
installpkg /media/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz

I'm quite sure the modules are on the second install CD. Just open up a terminal, 'cd' into there and see if they exist.

So once the CD is mounted,

Code:

cd /media/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/
ls

if you see it, 'installpkg' it.

EDIT: I would personally do it like this:

Code:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/tmp
cd /mnt/tmp/extra/linux-2.6.17.13
installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
cd
umount /dev/hdc

robcult731 · 03-18-2007, 11:37 AM

Forget what I said, mounted it with mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

and then got

mount: device /dev/cdrom is write-protected read-only

How do i verify the files there now? I tried that

installpkg mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz

and got the same message as before

Alien Bob · 03-18-2007, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robcult731

I did try to mount it but got cannot create directory '/mnt/cdrom' : File exists ?

So the question now is - how do you try to mount that CD? Looks like you go wrong there.

Eric

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-18-2007, 11:40 AM

Dude:

YOU NEED THE '/' in front of that !

so it is /mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz

robcult731 · 03-18-2007, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

I believe it should be:

Code:

installpkg /mnt/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
or
installpkg /media/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz

I'm quite sure the modules are on the second install CD. Just open up a terminal, 'cd' into there and see if they exist.

So once the CD is mounted,

Code:

cd /media/cdrom/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/
ls

if you see it, 'installpkg' it.

EDIT: I would personally do it like this:

Code:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/tmp
cd /mnt/tmp/extra/linux-2.6.17.13
installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz
cd
umount /dev/hdc

Right ok, thanks - I did that, saw that the file was there, used installpkg to install kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz, cd'd back to root, startx and am now back at the xfce desktop but still have no use of a mouse?

Alien Bob · 03-18-2007, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Right ok, thanks - I did that, saw that the file was there, used installpkg to install kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz, cd'd back to root, startx and am now back at the xfce desktop but still have no use of a mouse?

So, you did not reboot as required?

Eric

H_TeXMeX_H · 03-18-2007, 11:55 AM

restart the machine

EDIT: oops ... posted at same time

robcult731 · 03-18-2007, 12:15 PM

yep that's done it, great stuff! cheers fellas

Next problem: I've installed wine as before, tried

Quote:

wine hluplink.exe

and have gotten

Quote:

wine: configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully.
wine: could not load L":c:\\windows\\system32\hluplink.exe": Module not found

robcult731 · 03-18-2007, 12:42 PM

went to root then winetools then wine-install which brought up a nice wine gui window, i created a fake windows drive, installed the half life demo by going through its windows style install shield, it installed ok but now for the life of me i can't find where it installed to! obviously its in the fake windows drive which wine said it made in Home/User.wine/c etc but i can't find it!?

hussar · 03-18-2007, 04:03 PM

In your home directory, try `ls .wine/c_drive/Program\ Files/`. Your application could very well be there.

If that fails, try `find / -name hpuplink.exe -print`.

Alien Bob · 03-18-2007, 04:33 PM

Wine also inserts menu entries for the Windows programs that are installed using Wine - in the KDE menu at least there will be a menu entry "Wine".

Eric

robcult731 · 03-18-2007, 08:13 PM

It's working! ...sort of, I can get the game to launch but it crashes my laptop with a nasty looking colourful messed-up screen - I get the intro of "game of the year" etc then when the game trys to start it just has a phit of colour and freezes, any ideas?

Here's what I did to get it working btw, getting quite used to this terminal stuff

Code:

cd /$HOME/.wine
ls
c      config    drive_c    system.reg    userdef.reg    cachedmetrics.:0.0    dosdevices    generic.ppd     user.reg
cd drive_c
ls
Program Files     Sierra     Windows
cd Sierra
ls
Half-LifeUplink
ls
INSTALL.LOG     gldrv      hldemo.exe    media    valve
UNWISE.EXE      hl_res.dll    hw.dll     readme.txt     valve.ico
a3dapi.dll      hldemo.dat    logo.bmp   sw.dll  
wine hldemo.exe

Reading back on this thread we've come quite far, would be a shame to find its all been for nothing!

My laptops specs, never once used it to play a game before but this should be more than enough for the first Half-Life, right?

# Intel Pentium 4 M 1.3 GHz Processor
# 512 MB PC2100 Memory
# 40GB Hard Drive
# 24x CD-RW Combo Optical Drive
# 15" XGA LCD and ATI Radeon Mobility M7 Graphics with 32MB
# SoundMAX AC'97 Audio
# v.92 56kbps Modem and 10/100 Fast Ethernet
# 802.11b Wireless
# Two USB 2.0 Ports, One FireWire Port and One Type III PC Card Slot

Edit: I ran the demo on a windows PC to see what it should look like and the first flash intro bit (screen shot at the bottom) when ran on my laptop shows up in purple instead of black and moves through it all really fast !?

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2681/hldemocm9.jpg
^what it should look like

ttvp · 03-18-2007, 08:28 PM

Hey, I'm not really involved in this specific problem, but I have been following the instructions presented in this thread, and I think this is a better place than any for an issue like this.

I ran the installpkg for those three kernel packages from the DVD, not one problem in installation.

What if I hypothetically did not run the lilo program (/sbin/lilo) after configuring the lilo.conf file? What if I hypothetically can no longer boot my system past the "Loading Linux.................." part? All speaking hypothetically, of course. :-|

Edit: Disregard this post. In a flash of inspiration I booted from the Slack DVD and realized I could use that to boot the bare.i kernel into /dev/hda1. Dynamite defused. Resume thread.

robcult731 · 03-19-2007, 03:15 AM

...would help but as you can see im a n00b sorry

*Also when I try the Soldier Of Fortune 2 demo, when I try to play that I get a message come up saying

"It is highly unlikely that the windowed display can be initialized with the current depth.

Select "Ok" to try anyway.
Select "Cancel" to try a fullscreen mode instead"

...now it doesn't matter which one i choose because the game just crashes like the half-life demo?

edit: Also, since upgrading to the 2.6 kernel I've had two crashes with the file system - its just frozen and been unresponsive, am I right in saying that the 2.6 kernel is less stable than the previous one I was using? Because I'd rather have stability than the latest toys. I've seen that Quake III runs native to Linux, if the 2.6 kernel is going to have problems from time to time and the previous kernel isn't but could play Quake III I think I'd rather go down that route (as any one game would do, I’m by no means a huge gamer and just want 1 or two to fight boredom from time to time)

*Also, got my companies retail software to run in slack thanks to what I’ve learnt here so thanks