I've been tearing hair out for days over this stuff ... hopefully someone here can enlighten me further. I've managed to get wine to the stage where it appears to be installed as per the codeweaver site .... have tried both the "fake_windows" & windows partition methods, but in both cases when I try running any windows application installer it bombs out within seconds, mostly complaining about lack of space (this is nonsense since there are hundreds of Mb free in every partition & permissions in the /windows & /home/<username>/tmp directories both world writable.) I doubt that the problem is that I'm just working with incompatible applications because even things listed elsewhere as working perfectly with wine give the "hey I don't have enough space" error message for a second or two before the window disappears. Install logs don't appear to exist .... anyones guess why but hours of searching have failed to find anything along that line. The most recent application I've tried (a Windows based accounting program) starts installing OK & scrollbar gets to 2% then stops ... not a sign of any complaint / error message / whatever
Andreas Mohr Usenet 07/01
2001-Jul-03 03:16 UTC
Installing Windows apps ( Mandrake 8 / Codeweavers wine)
Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org> wrote:> I've been tearing hair out for days over this stuff ... hopefully someone > here can enlighten me further.> I've managed to get wine to the stage where it appears to be installed as > per the codeweaver site .... have tried both the "fake_windows" & windows > partition methods, but in both cases when I try running any windows > application installer it bombs out within seconds, mostly complaining about > lack of space (this is nonsense since there are hundreds of Mb free in every > partition & permissions in the /windows & /home/<username>/tmp directories > both world writable.)> I doubt that the problem is that I'm just working with incompatible > applications because even things listed elsewhere as working perfectly with > wine give the "hey I don't have enough space" error message for a second or > two before the window disappears.> Install logs don't appear to exist .... anyones guess why but hours of > searching have failed to find anything along that line. The most recent > application I've tried (a Windows based accounting program) starts > installing OK & scrollbar gets to 2% then stops ... not a sign of any > complaint / error message / whateverhttp://www.winehq.com/Trouble/ should help. -- Andreas Mohr, Renningen, Germany In case you need to contact me after expiry of temporary email address: my real address is (initial of first name).(last name)@mailto.de