wine users - Jan 2012 - Running Windows Apps Live With Wine On Linux Live DVD

Wine Version:wine-1.3.37
OS: Linux Mint 10
Additional Info: Remastersys 3.0.1-1
Testing Windows Software: Manga Studio Debut 4

Here is the situation:  I need to run a secure proprietary environment.  I'm
choosing to run things live in order to have more control, there are many
reasons, but primarily a fresh virus free read only boot every time has obvious
security benefits.  I need to use some Window's software, so Wine has been
the choice to run it on Linux.  My first Windows program installs and runs fine
(thank you), but when I  remaster using Remastersys Backup mode (not
Distribution mode) the Windows app shows up in remaster, but fails to run live. 
I went one more step and installed the remastered iso to the hard drive.  The
system installs, but the wine app doesn't run.  I don't know if this is
a Wine issue, Remastersys, the program itself issue, or some mix.

The Error Text (when trying to run it on the remaster DVD live):

> Window Title: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
> Window Text: Runtime Error!  Program:C:\Progr...
> 
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate i in an unusual
way.  Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I tried a work around.  I started the Live DVD with Wine installed fresh (no
programs installed to Wine).  I tried to install the app and I got another
error:

> Window Title: Setup Initialization Error
> Window Text: Setup has detected that unInstallShield is in use.  Please
close unInstallShield and restart setup.  Error 432.

How can I install Windows programs on Remaster copy and successfully run them
live?

There are might be issues with filesystem. Post complete terminal output of
running your program.

I mean the previous errors mentioned in the first post.  Sorry if this has
caused confusion.

winepunk wrote:
> 
> The app installs and runs fine on the hard disk. I create a remastered
backup to a DVD.  I boot the DVD and try to run the Wine app, it fails.  I
install from remastered DVD and it works fine from the hard drive launch.
So the wineprefix is on the DVD? The app could be failing because it wants to
write something somewhere on the fake C: drive and the filesystem is read-only.

I was under the impression the files from the cd are loaded into ram and that
becomes what usually is the hard drive (for live environment).  This seems
strange the app should try to write to dvd and not ram.

On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:06 -0600, winepunk wrote:
> I was under the impression the files from the cd are loaded into ram
> and that becomes what usually is the hard drive (for live
> environment).  This seems strange the app should try to write to dvd
> and not ram.
> 
Its not relevant whether the CD image is buffered in RAM or not: if the
underlying filing system is not writable anything the program writes
will be lost. Since it probably expects to read whatever it wrote at
sometime in future it would fail anyway.


Martin

I'm having trouble understanding your claim.  I'm not saying you are
wrong, there just seems evidence to the contrary.

When I boot Linux live, it creates a root partition that represents all the
files on the cd.  I can go in there and change anything I want.  It persists
during the session.  I can install linux programs also. Those changes are
represented on the root partition.

I'm running Live now, with Wine.  I just download 7zFM.exe.  It installed it
to the .wine/dosdevices/c: drive.  Although the Wine shortcut in Main Menu
didn't work, I navigated to ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/7-Zip and
entered:

wine 7zFM.exe

Launches fine.

Well, now that I think about it, I didn't try the command line thing I did
here with Manga Studio.  But I did try the shortcut Wine creates and that
don't work.  I have to restart with that disk.  I give my results on next
post.

BTW, the message I get when I try to launch the Wine shortcut for the Windows
program installed live above is:


Code:
File Not Found