wine users - Jul 2001 - Problems installing and configuring Wine

I downloaded wine-010708-stripped.tar.bz2 from the web.  (I'm running RedHat
6.2 on a Pentium 133 with 48mb of RAM and a 10gb hard drive which is not
recognized by the BIOS.  It was running Window$ using Maxblast EZ-Bios
software overlay - until that software went south.  Last time, for some
reason, it fixed itself when I booted to Linux (using my boot floppy) and
ran lilo - I've no idea how or why that helped, but it did!  Then it died
again and this time I just can't get the software repaired  so  I'm
trying
to install Wine.
As I say, I downloaded the source file, untarred it, and copied the needed
files to the /usr/local directory tree.

Two problems:
1.    The README file mentions a ./tools/wineinstall file.  This doesn't
seem to exist in the stuff I downloaded.
2.    I have written a ~/.wine/config file according to instructions found
on the web, but when I try to run Wine, the error message is as follows:
wineserver: ~/.wine/config is not a valid registry file
I thought this was supposed to guide Wine in its operation, but shouldn't
the registry be provided by something else?

Many thanks for any and all useful responses.

Moshe Samuel <MoSam@tcon.net> wrote:
: I downloaded wine-010708-stripped.tar.bz2 from the web.  (I'm running
RedHat
: ...

There are a lot of daily builts, with varying quality. Downloading the
package from wine.codeweavers.com is recommended by some developpers.

Bye

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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:33:36 -0500, "Moshe Samuel"
<MoSam@Tcon.net>
wrote:
>Two problems:
>1.    The README file mentions a ./tools/wineinstall file.  This doesn't
>seem to exist in the stuff I downloaded.
Bad stuff :-)
>2.    I have written a ~/.wine/config file according to instructions found
>on the web, but when I try to run Wine, the error message is as follows:
>wineserver: ~/.wine/config is not a valid registry file
Obviously you wrote a bad format file...
There should be an example in documentation/samples

Gerard