wine users - Jul 2009 - is it possible to copy/paste a program into wine dir

I have 3 hds and one one hard drive I have my portable software I use for my
windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it
posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a
launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors
like this one
> Details: Failed to execute child process
"/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file
or directory)

Shadowmeph wrote:
> I have 3 hds and one one hard drive
Wait, so you have FOUR HDs? A hard drive is a HD after all...

> I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also
have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the
programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried
to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one
> 
> > Details: Failed to execute child process
"/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file
or directory)
> 
This is not possible, because Wine is something completely seperate from Windows
and thus things like registry entries would be missing if you just straight
copied the files from a Windows install. Install the game seperately in Wine.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM, DaVince<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
>> I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I
also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste
the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I
tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one
>>
>> > Details: Failed to execute child process
"/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file
or directory)
>>
>
> This is not possible, because Wine is something completely seperate from
Windows and thus things like registry entries would be missing if you just
straight copied the files from a Windows install. Install the game seperately in
Wine.
If the game is portable in windows, it should be portable in wine.

-- 
-Austin

I don't believe that there is an official portable version of Diablo 2,
though. Someone did hack the app so it could work in a portable fashion, but
Wine might not accept it.

Shadowmeph wrote:
> I have 3 hds and one one hard drive I have my portable software I use for
my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it
posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a
launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors
like this one
> 
> > Details: Failed to execute child process
"/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file
or directory)
> 
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