wine users - Nov 2008 - Can't find a solution to this Steam problem

Right first off hello, first time posting here, so hey
Anyway yeah Im having a problem with steam installing.
I'm running an aspire one, Ive followed the instructions on the page to
install steam and after installing it would update i could play half-life and
then close steam and found that it had never installed the files on the machine,
i looked everywhere, in the wine folder in all the system folders all my
documents, couldn't find it  [Shocked]

then i noticed on the webpage that it said that theres a problem with ntfs
partitioned drives and that the only two solutions were to install it to a
native drive or update the kernel, i updated the kernel but still when i try and
install it no files are every created on the machine.

this is what I get when installing it using wine msiexec -i SteamInstall.msi

 
Code:
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" (nil) 0x32f7fc (nil)
0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" 0x12d150 0x32f7fc
0x129430 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action
L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveRegistryValues -> 2 ignored
L"RemoveRegistry" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 3 ignored
L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
Error: Failed to get common program folder
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 1 ignored
L"CreateFolder" table values
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised
shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised
shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised
shortcut
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
[root at localhost Downloads]# wine msiexec -i SteamInstall.msi
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" (nil) 0x32f7fc (nil)
0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" 0x12d150 0x32f7fc
0x129430 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:msi:ControlEvent_SpawnWaitDialog Doing Nothing
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action
L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveRegistryValues -> 2 ignored
L"RemoveRegistry" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 3 ignored
L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 1 ignored
L"CreateFolder" table values
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised
shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised
shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised
shortcut
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x33fe68 (nil) 0x33fe60
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files" 1 4 (nil)
(nil) (nil) (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x33fe68 (nil) 0x33fe60
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Valve\\Steam"
4 4 (nil) (nil) (nil) (nil)



Any help would be much appreciated, thanks  :D

bb_buster wrote:
> then i noticed on the webpage that it said that theres a problem with ntfs
partitioned drives and that the only two solutions were to install it to a
native drive or update the kernel, i updated the kernel but still when i try and
install it no files are every created on the machine.
> 
> this is what I get when installing it using wine msiexec -i
SteamInstall.msi
> 

What all have you changed from the Wine default config?
Why are you using ntfs partition? How are you specifying to install on your ntfs
partition? Where are you looking for those files?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:06:56 -0600
"bb_buster" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" (nil) 0x32f7fc
(nil) 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
> fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" 0x12d150 0x32f7fc
0x129430 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
Are you running wine as root ? If so do not and read
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014

> What distro are you using, and is this a dual boot system? Wine by default
installs apps to the user's home directory, which should be a native Linux
filesystem (usually ext3, but there are others). If you are having problems
installing because the partition is ntfs, that means you either changed
Wine's default drive_c to point to a different partition, or you somehow
installed Linux to an ntfs partition (which I'm not sure is even possible,
but it's the only other thing I can think of).

I'm running the default version of linux on the aspire one, the Linpus
distro. so i had nothing to do with installing that

> Paste the output of 'mount -v' and 'cat /proc/mounts' to
verify the
> partition filesystems.... (NTFS should show up as fuse-something /
> ntfs / ntfs-3g...)

with mount -v i get:

Code:
[root at localhost home]# mount -v
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /mnt/home type aufs
(rw,si=f3e5a9c0,xino=/home/user/.aufs.xino,create=mfs,dirs=/home/user=rw)



but with cat/proc/mounts it tells me theres no  such file or folder :?