wine users - Jul 2009 - installing a windows 3.1/95 program

I've been asked to try and get an old program running on one of the newer
machines so we can lose the windows 98 machine.

so shoved the floppy in, got it started to install in wine no problems, however
midway through installation I get "error, unable to install font"

now I've shoved the 98 hard disk in the machine, and copied everything in
the font folder to the font folder on the virtual c drive.

I've tried copying and pasting all the files associated with the program
onto the virtual c drive. but I cant get it to work.

any ideas on how to get this program running

(the program is called PC Genius, it was a kids magazine with computer game
attached to it, needless to say its not in the wine APPdb

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn wrote:
> I've been asked to try and get an old program running on one of the
newer machines so we can lose the windows 98 machine.
> 
> so shoved the floppy in, got it started to install in wine no problems,
however midway through installation I get "error, unable to install
font"
> 
> now I've shoved the 98 hard disk in the machine, and copied everything
in the font folder to the font folder on the virtual c drive.
> 
> I've tried copying and pasting all the files associated with the
program onto the virtual c drive. but I cant get it to work.
> 
> any ideas on how to get this program running
> 
> (the program is called PC Genius, it was a kids magazine with computer game
attached to it, needless to say its not in the wine APPdb

What version of Wine? If it's not the latest development release, upgrade.
If that doesn't work, post console output.