wine users - Nov 2011 - SWTOR requires 30Gb, wine has only 20 Gb. Allocate memory+?

I have been chosen for beta testing of Star Wars: The Old Republic.  First day
is tomorrow.  The installer program says that I require at least 30 Gb, but Wine
only has 20 Gb available.  Is there a way to increase the space on the hard
drive available to wine?  Is any body else doing SWTOR on wine?

darKoram

darKoram wrote:
>  Is there a way to increase the space on the hard drive available to wine?
Sure. Do it the same way you would increase the space available to any other
app: delete something or get a bigger hard drive.

Now, if what you meant to say is that Wine is not seeing all the space you do
have available on that partition, that would be a bug.

I installed the game earlier, and just recently again for the new test weekend,
and Wine had no issues letting the installer see my 300+ gb free, so this might
not be a Wine issue, but a problem with your machine.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, doh123 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I installed the game earlier, and just recently again for the new test
weekend, and Wine had no issues letting the installer
> see my 300+ gb free, so this might not be a Wine issue, but a problem with
your machine.
That was on your Mac or on one of the Linux distributions?  This may
actually be an issue with Linux not reporting all available free space
to Wine properly, thus Wine thinks there is much less space than is
available.

James

jjmckenzie wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, doh123 <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > I installed the game earlier, and just recently again for the new test
weekend, and Wine had no issues letting the installer
> > see my 300+ gb free, so this might not be a Wine issue, but a problem
with your machine.
> > 
> 
> That was on your Mac or on one of the Linux distributions?  This may
> actually be an issue with Linux not reporting all available free space
> to Wine properly, thus Wine thinks there is much less space than is
> available.
> 
> James
I don't even use Wine on Linux.. I haven't since pre 1.0  :-)  so yes..
this was on Mac OS X which I've been using to play the Beta.

thanks for the suggestion.

I right-clicked on the swtor desktop icon and chose properties.  From there i
was able to grab the argument and run it directly in a term

env WINEPREFIX="/home/kesten/.wine" wine
C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix
/home/kesten/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/Star\ Wars\ -\ The\ Old\
Republic.lnk
...
lots of errors starting with fixme and ending with stub
...
Exception: resolve: Unknown error

fixme:winhttp:WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser returning no proxy used

X Error of failed request:  BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter)

  Major opcode of failed request:  93 (X_CreateCursor)

  Resource id in failed request:  0x0

  Serial number of failed request:  27808

  Current serial number in output stream:  27812


Any idea what that's all about?  By the way, I was also able to use the wine
configure tool to add D: drive, though i don't know if programs will be
smart enough to use it.

the complete error output is here
http://paste.ubuntu.com/749968/

darKoram

...reading closer.  It wants a proxy for IE.. internet explorer, i only have
firefox installed.  OMG, could this be it... *runs to install IE.

ah, i wasn't resizing from wine...

I burned a clonezilla-gparted live cd and then rebooted.  Gparted just had
problems with my NTFS drive for some reason.  My machine started off as a
windows7 box, but it now fails to boot, so i moved on to linux about a month
ago.

Thanks for the tips.
I did get a hold of the windows recovery disk, but it wasn't up to the task.
The computer is actually still under warranty, so i can ship it back for a
re-install of windows, but i need to find another computer to work on in the
mean time first.

Good advice on the fat32, i'll likely do the wipe and resize you mentioned
once i've got all my "backup ducks" in a row.  I just wish i could
run star wars in the meantime!

Am i correct to assume that wine can't run Internet Explorer of any edition?
I tried IE7 and IE9 with no luck.

darKoram

I do have both wine and winetricks installed.
I suppose by associating a file with winetricks i can make it run with that
instead of wine, or run from command line.

I found iexplorer.exe in ProgramFiles in the .wine folder, so I guess it was
there already.  I don't know how to determine the version - the explorer
help menu just says iexplorer.  But perhaps that wasn't the problem.

I also found the readme for swtor.  It says...
MINIMUM

-------------------------

OS:     Windows 7

        Windows Vista with SP2

  Windows XP with service pack 2


Does wine or winetricks emulate all versions of windows and service packs, or do
i have to specify and/or get crafty?

darKoram

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM, darKoram <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I tried terminal $winetricks ie7
>
> It downloaded and started to install but then gave the error:
>
> windeows Internet Explorer 7 is not supported on this operating system
>
Interesting.  winetricks should setup Wine to allow the installation of IE7.

Unfortunately, winetricks is a third party program and is supported by
the authors.  Information for obtaining support is at the Wine Wiki
page I provided earlier.

James

darKoram wrote:
> I tried terminal $winetricks ie7 
> 
> It downloaded and started to install but then gave the error:
> 
> windeows Internet Explorer 7 is not supported on this operating system
> 
> looking for iexplorer7 on http://appdb.winehq.org i found others with
similar problems. Not sure if there is a standard workaround.
> 
> 
The AppDB reports that as a problem with 64 bit IE7 only, and winetricks only
installs 32 bit, so I don't see how you could have gotten that message from
winetricks.