Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:23:33 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: SweeTLeaF <SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help setting up wine Message-ID: <20021001022333.GF77771@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <16331905838.20020930211304@myrealbox.com> References: <16331905838.20020930211304@myrealbox.com>
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the freebsd diary put out a good article, i believe. either that or
onlamp.com.
-Adam
>> (09.30.2002 @ 1913 PST): SweeTLeaF said, in 1.5K: <<
> Hello ,
>
> Setting up wine?
>
> I just installed wine from the 4-stable packages and need some
> guidance on setting it up.
>
> The host i installed wine on does not have any "real" window
> partitions as the hd is dedicated to freebsd. according to the
> documentation if the latter is the case then one needs to make fake
> window directories. The documentation shows the dir. that need to be
> created , c:\windows, c:\windows\system c:\windows\Start Menu and
> c:\windows\start Menu\Programs
>
> I read i can make these fake directories anywhere so i though about
> making a wine dir. in usr and creating them there.
>
> #mkdir -p wine
> cd wine
>
> mkdir -p /windows, windows/system etc... is this correct?
>
> my next question is if the above is how you would create the fake
> directories then how do you create the required directory Start Menu?
> There is a space there, mkdir will create two separate directories Start and
> Menu not one directory Start Menu as the document says to create.
>
> After creating the fake directories i assume the last part is to just
> tell the config in ~./ that /usr/wine is its root for c: is this all
> or is there more. i think the registry is setup when installing the
> package is this correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Are there any good docs. for setting up wine on freebsd without a
> native windows partition, as the one from the winehq site is
> misleading.
>
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> --
> Best regards,
> SweeTLeaF mailto:SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com
>
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>> end of "help setting up wine" from SweeTLeaF <<
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