Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 15:09:11 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine: notepad OK, others not Message-ID: <200805041509.12737.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <48195c77.gWKwJdFnMZSip4d4%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <47ba7e1f.UDwudqHevRDrsQ8d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <200804231409.21628.tijl@ulyssis.org> <48195c77.gWKwJdFnMZSip4d4%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Thursday 01 May 2008 08:00:23 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> You have to mount the floppy and then link a: to the mount point. >> So if you mount it under /mnt you'd need this: >> >> mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt >> ln -s /mnt ~/.wine/dosdevices/a: > > That got only a little bit farther. It did find the setup program, > and the option dialogs seemed to work properly, but very shortly > after starting the actual install I got an error box: > > > VISIO Setup > > ! Tried to create an invalid path using 'A:\' and 'clipart.vs_' > > > and it locked up the display so that CtrlAltF1 would not switch > to a text screen (although it did allow AltTab to bring up FVWM's > window list). After clicking OK: > > > Visio Setup > > i Setup failed. > > > and it quit. Were there any messages printed in the terminal window? What version of Visio is this? You might also want to try on a Linux system if you have that somewhere, just to see if it works there. Also, you should really take this to the wine-users@winehq.org mailing list. The people there should know more about this than here on a FreeBSD mailing list.
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