Could anyone give me an idea of what may have happened to my wine installation I finally had it configured and running and was able to isntall an d get windows programs running and now I get this message paul@paul:~$ winecfg
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/paul', starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot open (null)
paul@paul:~$
I tried to launch all of the different program s that i have in wine and no luck, I am running as a regualr user, I would appreciate the help. I am using slackware 10.0

What version of wine are you using?


You could get the newest one at http://www.transgaming.com

wine changed its name to Cedega.

plus they have this nice gui that works with Cedega that allows you to manage and launch programs.

I believe WineX was renamed to Cedega.. and NOT the WINE project itself. Cedega concentrates only on the gaming part while Wine is the open source project trying to cover more than just games.

BTW I am very sure you are dealing with one of the latest version of Wine. Thanks to its notoriety in corrupting real Windows Partitions, Wine has decided to go with a fake partition windows instead. That basically means you will not be able to choose an existing windows partition to be used for the wine installation. for more details check the following link
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine...G-WITH-WINDOWS

Solution.. while running winesetup choose to create a fake partition. Then run wineprefixcreate. This should remove the error.

Oh another thing.. the ~/.wine/dosdevices folder contains all the links to the different drives. Check if it is pointing to the right places.

Hope that helps

--Valerie

I am using Wine 20040813, it was working really well until I made changes is my etc/fstab to try and get my cdrom working in usr so I think that this is where my problem maybe is. Somehow I have ended up with two fstabs I am posting both of them /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda4 /win-c vfat umask=222 1 1
/dev/hda5 /faat-d vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,uid,gid=100,owner./ro 0.0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
and now I am posting fsatb 1
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda4 /win-c vfat umask=222 1 1
/dev/hda5 /faat-d vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Please help me to determine which one of the two keep and and which modifications will make my cdrom work in usr. Thankyou

check if your config file in .wine dir. It should be showing the same drives as you have in your new fstab.

Even then I dont think this can be the reason for the error