Hi: I'm a relative noob to Wine, and I'm having a little trouble getting Dawn of War (regular, plus Winter Assault) to run under Debian Lenny. When I try to install it, it always tries to install automatically to the c: drive, which I don't want to do because I don't have enough space (running on a laptop). I do, however, have a USB external drive, which I'd like it to load to, but I don't know how. Also, I've run into the "wrong CD" problem, and read about how some people have had more success installing under a different version of wine. I'm using 1.0.1. How do I find a different version? What do I need to search for on this site to find other versions? Which version works best? Can I install with one version and run it with a newer version?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Canew <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi: > > I'm a relative noob to Wine, and I'm having a little trouble getting Dawn of War (regular, plus Winter Assault) to run under Debian Lenny. When I try to install it, it always tries to install automatically to the c: drive, which I don't want to do because I don't have enough space (running on a laptop).Do it as you would in Windows, in the installer. Otherwise, put your WINEPREFIX on the external drive.> Also, I've run into the "wrong CD" problem, and read about how some people have had more success installing under a different version of wine. I'm using 1.0.1. How do I find a different version? What do I need to search for on this site to find other versions?Ask you distro to provide an upgraded version. Or check http://www.winehq.org/download.> Which version works best?Depends on what you want to do. Newest should work best, aside from regressions.> Can I install with one version and run it with a newer version?Yeah, but it's a bit advanced to do, and not sure why you need to. -- -Austin
[quote="austin987"]On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Canew <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > Do it as you would in Windows, in the installer. Otherwise, put your > WINEPREFIX on the external drive. >That's what I mean. The installer automatically begins to install it in the c: drive. I'm not given an option.
Is there a guide somewhere that shows how to do that?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Canew <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Is there a guide somewhere that shows how to do that? > > > > > >http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f2f5f3bc795247f11962ea613a1f9e15657ad552 -- -Austin
So just so I have it right, the step-by-step is: 1) Create a directory on my external drive, say .wine2. 2) Execute the following: Code: WINEPREFIX="path/to/.wine2" wine dawnofwar.exe I'm going from memory on the dow exe file, but otherwise, that's it? I don't have to set anything else up? Anytime I want to run/install anything on my external, that's how? Also, other than the path and the .exe file above, is that code accurate? The syntax is correct? Sorry for all the noob questions. This is a bit of uncharted territory for me, and I don't want to break anything.
Argh! One more problem. My external is a Western Digital Passport, and it comes up as "WD Passport," so I usually need to put that in quotes to get the system to recognize it. In the wineprefix command, that gets screwed up. Is there another way to do it?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Canew <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Argh! One more problem. My external is a Western Digital Passport, and it comes up as "WD Passport," so I usually need to put that in quotes to get the system to recognize it. In the wineprefix command, that gets screwed up. Is there another way to do it? > > > > > >A) rename the drive or B) WINEPREFIX="/media/WD Passport/.wine-foo" or WINEPREFIX=/media/WD\ Passport/.wine-foo -- -Austin
STILL having trouble: I tried it, and got the following: Code: err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2 err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3 Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/media/iso', starting in the Windows directory. err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2 err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3 Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/', starting in the Windows directory. err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"C:\\windows" (2) err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2 err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3 Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/', starting in the Windows directory. err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2 err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3 Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/', starting in the Windows directory. wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\DawnOfWar.exe": Module not found [/code]
I did this: Code: WINEPREFIX="/media/WD Passport/.wine-dow" wine DawnOfWar.exe
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Canew <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I did this: > > > Code: > WINEPREFIX="/media/WD Passport/.wine-dow" wine DawnOfWar.exe >Do you not have write permission there? -- -Austin
I see rwx in the first positions, but none of the others. I tried changing it, did the command several times, checked the syntax four times. I'm doing it right, but nothing changes. I never officially formatted the hard drive or the sd card, just popped them in and went. Is that the problem?