Hey Guys

I have WineX 2.11 (I think) installed.

I've been told to open the dir in konsole then run "xinex setup.exe"

I tried it with Starcraft 1st but with no luck

any other ways of installing a win32 program with XineX??

Thanks Guys

you type: winex not xinex
it must of been a misprint on the document you read...

What's the difference between Wine and WineX ? I have Wine installed myself (20030813) and am trying to install a game as well. I get this error trying to install from cdrom :

bash-2.05b$ wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x400daee0 "../../scheduler/syslevel.c: Win16Mutex" wait timed out in thread 0009, blocked by 000a, retrying (60 sec)
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 12 (X_ConfigureWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 93
Current serial number in output stream: 98
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x40d37ec0 "x11drv_main.c: X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 000d, blocked by 000c, retrying (60 sec)
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000d), starting debugger...
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
bash-2.05b$ wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 12 (X_ConfigureWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 93
Current serial number in output stream: 98
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x40d37ec0 "x11drv_main.c: X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 000d, blocked by 000c, retrying (60 sec)
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000d), starting debugger...
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:

I can hear the CD spin and the initial InstallShield progress bar and some black window pop up but they just close again after a while without moving on to the actual installer.

Sorry that was a typo

I did type winex

sergeantroach : what error message do you get ?

Try specifying the dir like $winex /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe

ok well if it was a typo (twice) then post what error your getting when trying to run it....

for the other question, you can go to the devolopers sites to read the difference, but in lamens terms winex is built for specifically for games, and wine is just a floater i guess you can call it where it can run various things, including games, but doesn't have the support and guarutees like winex does when it comes to games...anyways, there are issues with installershield installers, so maybe look at this thread i know it isn't about your game, but the issue at hand and the fix is what you want to look at...

You may want to get a transgaming subscription so that you can download the latest winex build from them. The current is WineX 3.1 and it has better installshield support than in the past, and is likely to support your game more-so than the older 2.11 version

[sergeantroach@localhost sergeantroach]$ winex /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
wine: lstat /home/sergeantroach/.transgaming/wineserver-localhost/socket : No such file or directory


OK I get this message

OK Hey Guys

Anyone know how I can just test if I have WineX installed and working alright

Ok, I've succeeded in installing the original version of the game (EverQuest if it matters..) but when I try to install an expansion pack I get an error saying it (InstallShield) failed to copy IKernel.exe to c:\\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Engine\6\Intel 32 and that I should check my permissions. So I created this path (it didn't exist to start with) and made sure I had permission to rw in all these directories. Fired up wine again and still got the same error. So I copied the file manually to this dir and ran setup again. The error message pops up in a windows type error box from within the installer, not in the terminal.

Will the expansion pack install Everquest and the expansion pack together?

Also has anyone had any thoughts about my prob?

Hey Guys

I have just installed WineX 3.3.0 Pre release

Can anyone help me now?

:d

Thanks

should be easy with winex3 /path/to/setup.exe if the game is on a CD-ROM, make sure it is mounted. You might need to setup your configuration file found under .transgaming in your home directory

Hey Guys

Here is the (very long) config file for WineX 3.3.0
Can anyone see anything wrong with it?

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config

;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; "Path"="xxx" (Unix path for drive root)
;; "Type"="xxx" (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; "Label"="xxx" (drive label, at most 11 characters)
;; "Serial"="xxx" (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
;; directory structure.
;; Recommended:
;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)
;;
[Drive C]
"Path" = "${HOME}/.transgaming/c_drive/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Dos Drive"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "My Home"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "tmp"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive G]
"Path" = "/"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "root"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system32\\"
"Temp" = "e:\\"
"Path" = "c:\\windows\\;c:\\windows\\system32\\"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole
; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "/usr/lib/transgaming_winex3/winex/bin/wineshelllink"

# <wineconf>

[DllDefaults]
"DefaultLoadOrder" = "native, builtin, so"

[DllOverrides]
"commdlg" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
"ver" = "builtin, native"
"version" = "builtin, native"
"shell" = "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"lzexpand" = "builtin, native"
"lz32" = "builtin, native"
"comctl32" = "builtin, native"
"commctrl" = "builtin, native"
"advapi32" = "builtin, native"
"crtdll" = "builtin, native"
"mpr" = "builtin, native"
"winspool.drv" = "builtin, native"
"d3d8" = "builtin, native"
"d3drm" = "builtin, native"
"ddraw" = "builtin, native"
"dinput" = "builtin, native"
"dinput8" = "builtin, native"
"dmusic" = "builtin, native"
"dsound" = "builtin, native"
"opengl32" = "builtin, native"
"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
"rpcrt4" = "native, builtin"
"msvideo" = "builtin, native"
"msvfw32" = "builtin, native"
"mcicda.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciseq.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciwave.drv" = "builtin, native"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"msacm.drv" = "builtin, native"
"msacm" = "builtin, native"
"msacm32" = "builtin, native"
"midimap.drv" = "builtin, native"
"wininet" = "builtin, native"

[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Number of colors to copy from the default palette
"CopyDefaultColors" = "0"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
; Name of X11 display to use
;;"Display" = ":0.0"
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
;"Desktop" = "800x600"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
"UseDGA" = "N"
; Use XShm extension if present
"UseXShm" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "Y"
; Use XVidMode extension if present
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
"TextCP" = "0"
; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup
; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).
;; "XVideoPort" = "43"
; Use this to make your X server execute all commands
; sequentially rather than buffering commands. Will make
; everything really SLOW but can be nice for debugging.
;; "Synchronous" = "Y"

[d3dgl]
"AnisotropicTextureFiltering" = "N"
"VertexShaders" = "Y"
"ClipSpaceFix" = "Y"

[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
"Resolution" = "96"
"Default" = "-adobe-times-"

[FontPatterns]
"Pattern0" = "-adobe-times*"
"Pattern1" = "-adobe-helvetica*"
"Pattern2" = "-adobe-courier*"
"Pattern3" = "-misc-fixed*"

[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"

[parallelports]
"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"

[spooler]
"LPT1:" = "|lpr"
"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"

[ports]
;"read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
; "write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"

[spy]
"Exclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"

[registry]
;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "n"
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "n"
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; "PeriodicSave" = "600"
; Save only modified keys
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"

[Tweak.Layout]
;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98'
"WineLook" = "Win98"

[Console]
"Drivers" = "xterm"
;"Drivers" = "tty"
"XtermProg" = "konsole"
;"InitialRows" = "25"
;"InitialColumns" = "80"
;"TerminalType" = "nxterm"

[Clipboard]
"ClearAllSelections" = "0"
"PersistentSelection" = "1"

; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files
[afmdirs]
;"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
;"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
;"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
;"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

[WinMM]
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

[wineoss]
"UseMMap" = "N"
"FullDuplex" = "N"

[bf1942.exe]
[d3dgl]
"ClipSpaceFix" = "N"

# </wineconf>

Thanks Guys