In my mandrake 9.2 system already equipped winth win4lin 5.0, I installed wine
from the mandrake cds.
The installation went good, but wine choosed for c:\ the c:\ directory of
win4lin located into my home directory.
Is that situation dangerous ?
If could be better, as I think, to separate the c:\ directories, how safely do
it for wine ?
Thanks.
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Get winesetuptk from the wine sourceforge download page https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 Run it, chose the overwrite option, and chose a new location for C:\, default is set to $HOME/.wine/fake_windows Ivan,
I don't know, since I opted for Win4Lin and my existing W98Se CD instead of wrestling with WINE, but you might need to go into the Win4Lin Administration module, remove your present Personal Windows setup, and redo it - just in case. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 5 May 04, at 19:22, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:> In my mandrake 9.2 system already equipped winth win4lin > 5.0, I installed wine from the mandrake cds. > > The installation went good, but wine choosed for c:\ the > c:\ directory of win4lin located into my home directory. > > Is that situation dangerous ? > > If could be better, as I think, to separate the c:\ > directories, how safely do it for wine ? > > Thanks.
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:22:44PM +0200, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:> The installation went good, but wine choosed for c:\ the c:\ directory of > win4lin located into my home directory. > > Is that situation dangerous ?On my systems, I point the "C" drive to a VFAT partition owned and writable by the group "users". (I also use WIN386.SWP as an extra Linux swap partition and tell the X font server to gather fonts from /C/WINDOWS/FONTS/.) This means that a malicious user could delete files or install trojan-horse programs, but one takes the same risk with a shared Win95 system. Sharing a fake C drive between two instances of Wine run by the same user should not be a problem. On the other hand, you could do this even with the same Wine binary; read about the WINEPREFIX environment variable in the Wine manpage.> If could be better, as I think, to separate the c:\ directories, how safely do > it for wine ?Edit ~/.wine/config and set the paths to whatever you desire. Use 'mkdir' and 'chmod' to make sure they exist and have suitable permissions. -- resume at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/resume.htm PGP key at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/newmail.htm#GPGKey