Thanks Mark - it actually worked! So far I've only tried the method of
clicking on the .exe from the file manager and specifying to open with
Wine, but I'm going to experiment. Couldn't get most of my regular programs
to work properly - some games complained about the lack of DirectX 6 being
installed, and many others seemed to think that they had just been
installed - I guess they couldn't find the path to their configuration
files. Probably all to be expected though, at this point. Sure was strange
to see them startup in Linux though! Even more strange - one program that
nearly always crashes Windows when something goes wrong - it locked up, but
this time all I had to do was "Kill" it!
At 07:05 AM 8/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
>"Brisco County Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Thanks - but here's what it says when I set the path to any Win program:
> >
> > /usr/x11r6/bin/wine-strip: Can't exec '/mnt/dev/hda1/windows/notepad.exe':
> > file not found.
> >
> > And it also says it couldn't find find my keyboard layout.
> >
>
>I've found it to be a normal method of operation for Wine to complain
>about the keyboard, however, this usually doesn't prevent it from
>working. What IS preventing Wine from finding and executing your request
>is your path statement. It WAY wrong. You don't reference your
>"partition" identity in the path. If that is a correct representation of
>the path on your computer to the Windows Notepad program the path
>statement should look like this:
>
> /mnt/windows/windows/notepad.exe
>
>The full command line command with arguments looks like this:
>
> wine /mnt/windows/windows/notepad.exe
>
> the | the path statement
> prog |
>
>wine = the program being invoked
>/mnt = dir on linux fs where the windows folder lives
>/windows = the actual vfat partition
>/windows = the windows dir within the windows partition
>notepad = the executable desired to be run
>
>Hope this helps,
>--
>Mark
