Ronan;
I got it to work, but I'm not happy with what I had to do to get it
working. I had to change the owner and group for the wine/fake_windows
to root. Who do you have has a owner and group?
Thanks
Mike M.
Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> Mike Manchester wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to run wine using the fake_windows. But it seems like
>> everything I try to install complains about not being able to create
>> a directory during install. I've checked the permissions for the
>> /home/wine/fake_windows and I as a user have rwx for the dir as well
>> as being the group and owner. Does anyone have this kind of setup
>> running? I hope I don't need a true windows partition to get this to
>> work as my machine now is Linux only and it would mean a major
>> backup, re-partition and install to have a windows partition. Or at
>> least one that is bootable. Maybe I can just create a dos type
>> partition with fdisk and install windows using wine from Linux. Don't
>> know if that will work or not. Anyway and ideas, hints tips would be
>> appricated.
>>
>> Mike M.
>
>
> I have a fake_windows setup, and it works fine. Make sure that the
> fake_windows directory is actually set to be your C: drive. Do you
> have a "temp" space set (ie c:\\windows\\temp)? That could cause real
> problems during a Win32 software install.
>
> --ronan
>
>
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