Okay i've been browsing as many of the Photoshop/wine threads as i could, and a lot of the suggestions include references to "editing your windoze registry then booting back into linux"...Now, am i to understand that i need windoze installed on a partition to make wine run Photoshop 7 via linux?

fyi i'm running the latest build of wine (2004-09-14) and SuSE 9.1...wine is set to be run as win2k in the config file...thanks...any help would be greatly appreciated.

No, you should install Photoshop into your Linux partition. You don't need a Windows partition at all. I don't know if you could run it from your Windows partition, but I'm sure it would cause problems.

I think what you read were suggestions for copying your files over from a Windows install and exporting the registy settings...

ah i see...well thanks for the reply...i'm going to post my errors from my efforts so far...all i've done now, is installed the lastest rpm of wine (2004-09-14) and unzipped the Photoshop install dir in my home directory.

in /home/johndoe/Photoshop7/...
# wine 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.
Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the config file
file_set_error: No medium found
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not accessible.
Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the config file
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not accessible.
Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the config file

...on top of that a empty black CMD window pops up over my terminal as well as an empty warning dialog with just a "OK" button, and the Photoshop splash screen just hangs for about thirty seconds. I'm sure tons of people have had this exact same problem...Thanks!

btw- i get similar errors with notepad.exe as well...it's the only other executable i've tried

and all other exe's...anyone?

I had the same problem and was able to get the message to go aways by making sure the permissions on the folder that acts as your c:\ ch mod 777. and child folders. Then i went into the config file and made sure the path was set right.

the problem for the Please use the registry key KEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels i fixed this in the config file by If putting semicolons before the following lines in ~/.wine/config:
[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
"Desktop" = "640x480"
It should be
;[AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
;"Desktop" = "640x480"
got this information from www.frankscorner.org

But now I have another problem the configuring Install wizard pop hangs at 99% and a window pops up that looks like a terminal and says c:\temp\_ISTMP4.DIR\_INS5576._MP with an error window in the center of it that is blank and only has an OK button and when pushed the window closes without finishing the setup.

I got wine 20041201. The website where I read about how to install photoshop 7 said to alter the config file so that it would use win98 settings. Trouble is, there's no config file in the installed directory. Should I be looking elsewhere?

You could try this web site, http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html it provides a setup script for wine that'll optionally install IE6, WMP 7, Dcom and others, it runs a lot of apps very nicely. All you need is the current wine 20041201, the script does the rest, it sets up up the fake C: drive , the registry and the config files.

The config provided has run almost everything I've thown at it, and may work with Photoshop.

HTH

Mad.

Thanks luther

I'm a very new linux user (about 2 months). Where could I go to fing out some more about wine and how to use it. I spent some time at winehq.com or org or something. The information they have seems a bit limited.

I've seen many sites that have a list of what'll run in wine and what configuration changes to make. Does that mean that nothing else will run. I've seen that command and conquer red alert 2 will run, how do I know if cnc Tiberian Sun will run? I suppose I just try it and see.

I just configured wine with the setup script that madluther suggested. When I attempt to run the installer for photoshop 7 the terminal says:

/usr/bin/wineserver: relocation error: /usr/bin/wineserver: symbol epoll_create, version GLIBC_2.3.2 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

Part of the problem may be that I pointed the setup script to /usr/bin. What I really wanted was /usr/lib, which is where the wine package installed.

I attempted to run the photoshop installer with the command:
wine /mnt/cdrom/Photo shop 7/Photoshop/setup.exe.
This is definately the right path.

Alsa, the setup script did not install ie6 and wmp7 as it said it eould. It gave a message about ie6 setup starting too many times and then stopped the setup.