From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 19:22:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1DA37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581E243E7B for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (bcc48f516ef5f6257d74f9710d4360dd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g912NXho038934; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g912NXBs038933; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:23:33 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: SweeTLeaF Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help setting up wine Message-ID: <20021001022333.GF77771@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , SweeTLeaF , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <16331905838.20020930211304@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16331905838.20020930211304@myrealbox.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > SweeTLeaF mailto:SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "help setting up wine" from SweeTLeaF << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message