wine users - Jun 2009 - Message from Wine: IOPL not enabled (again)

Hi,
on a dual boot laptop I have winXP and Debian sid/squeeze x86_64 installed. Wine
is version 1.0.1. WinXP partition is NTFS and mounted read-only under Debian. I
have used winecfg to attach the NTFS partition to my drive E: and use winefile
to navigate to the microsoft office 11 binaries on E:. Both winword.exe and
excel.exe reports the famous IOPL not enabled message. I have not installed any
office related files into my ~/.wine hierarchy. I tried several other windows
applications that I have installed on the NTFS partition: Foxit PDF reader
starts nicely, Googles Picasa 3 starts nicely, Several programs that I
didn't expect to start actually did and Acrobat reader gave me a message
that it wanted MSVCR80.dll. Obviously some files needed are not found, but the
IOPL warning is only issued by Microsoft apps without further warnings in the
Linux console window where I started winefile.

By googling I found a suggestion to switch gdiplus library to windows native
mode, this didn't help me out. I looked into appdb on the windows issues but
these reports are probably made with office installed into ~/.wine/disk_c I
don't have much else but a pristine wine install. Since all the files wine
is looking for are all located on my NTFS drive on E:, I wonder how I should
proceed to direct wine to look there instead of somewhere else.

I could use a virtual machine, but it is not trivial to make a virtual machine
work with an existing NTFS partition of winXP, at least not from what I have
found so far on the Net.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?
-- 
Svenn

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Svenn Are
Bjerkem<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> on a dual boot laptop I have winXP and Debian sid/squeeze x86_64 installed.
Wine is version 1.0.1. WinXP partition is NTFS and mounted read-only under
Debian. I have used winecfg to attach the NTFS partition to my drive E: and use
winefile to navigate to the microsoft office 11 binaries on E:. Both winword.exe
and excel.exe reports the famous IOPL not enabled message. I have not installed
any office related files into my ~/.wine hierarchy. I tried several other
windows applications that I have installed on the NTFS partition: Foxit PDF
reader starts nicely, Googles Picasa 3 starts nicely, Several programs that I
didn't expect to start actually did and Acrobat reader gave me a message
that it wanted MSVCR80.dll. Obviously some files needed are not found, but the
IOPL warning is only issued by Microsoft apps without further warnings in the
Linux console window where I started winefile.
>
> By googling I found a suggestion to switch gdiplus library to windows
native mode, this didn't help me out. I looked into appdb on the windows
issues but these reports are probably made with office installed into
~/.wine/disk_c I don't have much else but a pristine wine install. Since all
the files wine is looking for are all located on my NTFS drive on E:, I wonder
how I should proceed to direct wine to look there instead of somewhere else.
>
> I could use a virtual machine, but it is not trivial to make a virtual
machine work with an existing NTFS partition of winXP, at least not from what I
have found so far on the Net.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.

-- 
-Austin

> 
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to proceed?
> > 
> 
> Start by installing the programs in wine, as you would in windows.
> 

And if it's Office 2007, upgrade to 1.1.24, as it won't install in 1.0.1
(Office 2003 should).

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992