wine users - Apr 2008 - 0.9.60 Wine with Ubunto 8.04- Create "S" drive with space

I am attempting to install a windows base business management program on Wine
0.9.60

I tried to install using the wines windows XP, but ran into shell32.dll
problems.  Iread Sticky's notations, and switched to wines windows 98.  This
allowed the setup.exe to move ahead, but when it looked at the S drive location
it wanted to install to, it found no allocated space.  It needs 483803.  I do
not see how to allocate specific space in the Wine configuration.  The computer
I am installing the program on is a client to a Windows XP server, the program
requires the S drive.

any thoughts on why it wont install on the XP selection, and the drive problem?

Thanks,
Steve

velocity54 wrote:
> I am attempting to install a windows base business management program on
Wine 0.9.60
> 
> I tried to install using the wines windows XP, but ran into shell32.dll
problems.  Iread Sticky's notations, and switched to wines windows 98.  This
allowed the setup.exe to move ahead, but when it looked at the S drive location
it wanted to install to, it found no allocated space.  It needs 483803.  I do
not see how to allocate specific space in the Wine configuration.  The computer
I am installing the program on is a client to a Windows XP server, the program
requires the S drive.
> 
> any thoughts on why it wont install on the XP selection, and the drive
problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve

It's stupid if it requires an "S:" drive. What if I don't have
it? Sounds like standard M$BS. If you absolutely have to have that
"S:" drive - map it with winecfg. Of course the place it is pointed to
needs to have at least that much space on it.

Just a point of clarification.  The creation and use of the S drive is the
vendor requirement.  Wine easily allows creating the drive, and perhaps it
easily allows the allocating of space for the software to be loaded, but I have
not found the solution.

The command setuptbswin1.exe will implement and progress, but stalls at the
point of finding the S drive having no allocated space.

Thanks, 

Steve

velocity54 wrote:
> Just a point of clarification.  The creation and use of the S drive is the
vendor requirement.
You can add an "s:" drive really easy on Wine:

Code:
ln -s /my/drive_s ~/.wine/dosdevices/s:


Of course replacing "/my/drive_s" with the path where you want your
"s: drive" to be.