about wine

alifromcairo · Dec 5, 2004, 07:14 PM

I am a newbie to linux. I have recently installed Fedora Core 3. I have problems
running wine. I downloaded the recent version(for i686) from the official site
and installed it. When I run wine(from the terminal) it says:
<< 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 ´/root´, starting in the Windows directory.>>(I have some problems with quotes and doubleqoutes)
Can somebody please help me?

Scar_T · Dec 6, 2004, 12:46 AM

Do you check if you has correctly defined the paths? of if you has mounted the partitions where you windows installation is?

Why don't you post you wine configuration file here. Only the part where you define the paths is important.

alifromcairo · Dec 6, 2004, 02:03 PM

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

;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a
;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with
;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'

[wine]
"Windows" = "c:\\windows"
"System" = "c:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "e:"
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\ \"
"Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"

# [wineconf]

[Version]
; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,w in20,win30,win31)
;"Windows" = "winxp"
; DOS version to imitate
;"DOS" = "6.22"

alifromcairo · Dec 6, 2004, 02:08 PM

I have checked the paths, been fiddling with them, nothing works. It always reports the same error messange. I dont have a windows installation. I formated the ex-windows partition. I only have a FC3 installation. No NFS, NTFS partitions.

alifromcairo · Dec 6, 2004, 03:56 PM

Do you guys have any idea how could I run windows games under Linux without Wine?
(something about the DRI drivers)

Scar_T · Dec 6, 2004, 06:33 PM

Well if you don't have a windows installation you will need a "fake installation", i suppose you have one, it should be in .wine directory (it often installed there). But is easier to use a windows installation for run wine.

Now the second question, yes it's possible to run games under linux, but only with games what has a port, like Doom 3, with this game you'll need download somefiles to can run it.

With another games is not possible, because a lot of them need DirectX and DX doesn't have a native support on linux, you'll need to use WineX (i think has changed its name, not sure though) to run them.

alifromcairo · Dec 7, 2004, 01:06 PM

Look at the first linux thread(go to the last page), and read the last post. It says u can run Q3A and UT. And what is DRI?

Scar_T · Dec 7, 2004, 09:16 PM

well, maybe it's my english (i know it sux), but i said "like doom", i was giving an example of game with a port or support for linux, so does the games you mentioned.

And you can good info about DRI here:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

alifromcairo · Dec 8, 2004, 12:56 PM

Thanks.

Dec 5, 2004, 07:14 PM	#1
alifromcairo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	about wine I am a newbie to linux. I have recently installed Fedora Core 3. I have problems running wine. I downloaded the recent version(for i686) from the official site and installed it. When I run wine(from the terminal) it says: << 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 ´/root´, starting in the Windows directory.>>(I have some problems with quotes and doubleqoutes) Can somebody please help me?

Dec 6, 2004, 12:46 AM	#2
Scar_T DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 84 Rep Power: 0	Do you check if you has correctly defined the paths? of if you has mounted the partitions where you windows installation is? Why don't you post you wine configuration file here. Only the part where you define the paths is important.

Dec 6, 2004, 02:03 PM	Thread Starter #3
alifromcairo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	WINE REGISTRY Version 2 ;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config ;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a ;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with ;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config \| grep '.' [wine] "Windows" = "c:\\windows" "System" = "c:\\windows\\system" "Temp" = "e:" "Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\ \" "Profile" = "c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator" "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv" ;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1" ;"ShowDotFiles" = "1" "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink" # [wineconf] [Version] ; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,w in20,win30,win31) ;"Windows" = "winxp" ; DOS version to imitate ;"DOS" = "6.22"

Dec 6, 2004, 02:08 PM	Thread Starter #4
alifromcairo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	I have checked the paths, been fiddling with them, nothing works. It always reports the same error messange. I dont have a windows installation. I formated the ex-windows partition. I only have a FC3 installation. No NFS, NTFS partitions.

Dec 6, 2004, 03:56 PM	Thread Starter #5
alifromcairo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Do you guys have any idea how could I run windows games under Linux without Wine? (something about the DRI drivers)

Dec 6, 2004, 06:33 PM	#6
Scar_T DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 84 Rep Power: 0	Well if you don't have a windows installation you will need a "fake installation", i suppose you have one, it should be in .wine directory (it often installed there). But is easier to use a windows installation for run wine. Now the second question, yes it's possible to run games under linux, but only with games what has a port, like Doom 3, with this game you'll need download somefiles to can run it. With another games is not possible, because a lot of them need DirectX and DX doesn't have a native support on linux, you'll need to use WineX (i think has changed its name, not sure though) to run them.

Dec 7, 2004, 01:06 PM	Thread Starter #7
alifromcairo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Look at the first linux thread(go to the last page), and read the last post. It says u can run Q3A and UT. And what is DRI?

Dec 7, 2004, 09:16 PM	#8
Scar_T DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 84 Rep Power: 0	well, maybe it's my english (i know it sux), but i said "like doom", i was giving an example of game with a port or support for linux, so does the games you mentioned. And you can good info about DRI here: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

Dec 8, 2004, 12:56 PM	Thread Starter #9
alifromcairo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Thanks.