I have a question regarding moving Wine's C:/ drive to another file system. My hard drive is currently partitioned into 3 primaries. I have a NTFS partition that Windows is on, a Ext4 with Ubuntu, and a third, larger, FAT32 partition that I use to hold cross-OS data (music, pictures, documents ect). I have had infinite difficulty getting wine to run apps that I installed (through wine) to my FAT32 partition. Every time I try to run an app, it throws an error "The program <appname> has encountered a serious error and needs to close...". After doing some Googling it seems Wine can only run apps that are installed to it's C:/ drive. This has created some problems for me as my Linux partition is substantialy smaller than my storage partition that I use for my windows apps. My question is, is it possible to either run apps off a different fat32 partition, or move the default C:/ folder to the fat32 partition. When I tried moving it manually it was impossible to create a link to it from the default install location. Any ideas on how to remedy this?
> >I have a question regarding moving Wine's C:/ drive to another file system. My hard drive is currently partitioned into 3 primaries. I have a NTFS partition that Windows is on, a Ext4 with Ubuntu, and a third, larger, FAT32 partition that I use to hold cross-OS data (music, pictures, documents ect). > >I have had infinite difficulty getting wine to run apps that I installed (through wine) to my >FAT32 partition. Every time I try to run an app, it throws an error "The program <appname> has >encountered a serious error and needs to close...". After doing some Googling it seems Wine >can only run apps that are installed to it's C:/ drive. This has created some problems for me >as my Linux partition is substantialy smaller than my storage partition that I use for my >windows apps. My question is, is it possible to either run apps off a different fat32 >partition, or move the default C:/ folder to the fat32 partition. When I tried moving it >manually it was impossible to create a link to it from the default install location. >1. Wine does not support running programs from a FAT32 partition at this time, very well. 2. FAT32 partitions do not support SYMLINKS in Linux. NTFS might, but that is an iffy proposition, from what I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong or incorrect about this.) 3. Is there any reason you cannot create another EXT4 type partition out of the FAT32 partition to support installing applications to?>Any ideas on how to remedy this?Yes, your Wine applications, for now must be installed to a Linux type partition. This IS being worked on and will be available in the future (just cannot say when.) James McKenzie
I tried step 3, but it doesn't seem to work. My third primary is now split into 3 logicals; swap, fat32 and ext4 (for wine). When I tried to cut, via file explorer, the directory /home/.wine/drive_c to my ext4 partition "Wine" there was no paste option. I'm sure part of the problem could be by using the file explorer instead of terminal, but I want to check why this is happening before I start seriously screwing things up.
I ran an installer and installed a program to "C:/Program Files" and it put it right back in the origional drive_c folder. So i went ahead and linked the origional drive_c to the new partition's drive_c and things seemed to be working, programs installed ok, but when I run them they come back with the same "This program has encountered a serious problem and needs to close" error. This is way too complicated...
Alright, completely removed and reinstalled wine. Starting fresh, here is what I am doing. Code: export WINEPREFIX=/media/Wine cd /media/CD_name wine Setup.exe When I click the launcher button to start an installer (Install Shield) I get the same error as in my first post. When I click the "Browse C: Drive" it correctly takes me to the clean install drive_c. With an app that uses a different installer, the program installs without issue, but when I try to run the program, it throws the same error: "<programname> has encountered a serious problem and needs to close". What is going on here? It is far too difficult to change an install directory in wine.