Guest CaptainRon Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 although wine is able to run programs as simple as regedit.exe, it fails with others like Winamp etc. Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/ron', starting in the Windows directory. Wine 0.9.11 Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program wine --help Display this help and exit wine --version Output version information and exit Since it can;t understand the current working directory's DOS equivalent, it doesnt run tools that need file I/O This is the error i get with Wine. What should I do to correct the error ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Where is winamp installed in terms of it's directory structure, eg: C:\Program Files\Winamp. What are you typing to run it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CaptainRon Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 uh... i move into the /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files/Winamp directory then type wine winamp.exe This same command works perfectly fine on a RHL 9 system, with wine for RHL 9. It seems Wine hasn't been able to configure itself properly. So what steps are requried to either manually do so, or is there any other easier work around? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Delete your windoze fake drive, and re-create it using winetrools. Best wine version isn't that clear, but I can recommend building it from CVS- after all there's no such thing as a stable wine version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Delete your windoze fake drive, and re-create it using winetrools.Best wine version isn't that clear, but I can recommend building it from CVS- after all there's no such thing as a stable wine version. This does seem the best fix to many wine problems :D winetools really does a good job .. for me Wine is not something I use frequently so I don't dedicate a lot of time to learning the config but winetools makes tis a breeze... If notepad works and stuff with external libs doesn't then its more likely than not a config issue... One problem so far has me stumped is progs using MSDEV kit... I wanted to just use a prog as a one off and I just couldn't get it to install under wine and when I tried a vmware session it ws because it needed Internet Explorer X.X installed... not to use just because the common foundation libs were deps of IE??? Sometimes you can trick it and do an Win install and copy the files it needs and it works fine, other times not. My only have to have prog is a dictionary (Harraps) and I cani nstall it under wine but the fonts mess up and it spits out garbage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Gowator, Did you copy all your Windows fonts into your TTF fonts directory? Normally for me this solved my fonts problems - at least with using Lotus Notes under wine. CaptainRon, I think part of your wine installation could be missing/corrupted, which is why it can't find the directories it needs. Try the winetools, or sidenet wine stuff, it works a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateamargo Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Gowator, Did you copy all your Windows fonts into your TTF fonts directory? Normally for me this solved my fonts problems - at least with using Lotus Notes under wine. This worked perfectly for me. It ran with: su password cp /mnt/win_c/windows/fonts/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 This thread may be a good read for the original poster, as it discusses running winamp under wine (although it is a different problem, but likely relevant). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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