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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

[SOLVED] wine. can't change drive C mapping

hi! i use winecfg to change the mapping of the C drive, but i realized that i cant change it because, if i change it with winecfg, when i close winecfg and open it again, it revert all my mappings to the defaults:
C -> /mnt/cdrom
D -> /mnt/cdrom

when i start winecfg give me some errors:

[aleyscha@aleyscha ~]$ winecfg
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/aleyscha', starting in the Windows directory.
ALSA lib conf.c:3949:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default:0
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 '/', starting in the Windows directory.

when i start a game:

[aleyscha@aleyscha ~]$ wine "/sda1/bin/drive_c/Program Files/FlatOut2/FlatOut2.exe"
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/aleyscha', starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot find '/sda1/bin/drive_c/Program Files/FlatOut2/FlatOut2.exe'
[aleyscha@aleyscha ~]$

so i cant change my mappings :S i try, i put a "config" file in my ~/.wine with:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/sda1/bin/drive_c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Drive_C"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-Rom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "/downloads/New"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Downloads"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

with no sucess... i dont know how everybody plays so easy with wine... the frustration here is killing me softly :'(

Last edited by leo2501 (2007-10-23 11:41:20)

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kumico

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Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 224

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Re: [SOLVED] wine. can't change drive C mapping

can i jsut ask, why you need to re-map the drives? i've always just leave it as-is and copy every dll from a real wiondows xp install into it,,, and everythign work flawlessly here, battlefield2, flash 8, american mcgee's alice, etc, etc.
from teh errors above, "c:\\windows" is not accessible.", i'd say the required files for a sane windwos installation are not there, this could also be why it gets reset afterwards ...

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: [SOLVED] wine. can't change drive C mapping

a friend tells me to delete my ~/.wine dir, and NOW WORKS must be some trouble because my /home partition is from another arch installation, cause i change my computer a month ago, in the dir i map to C IS a windows structure

im playing flatout 2 and prey perfectly... better than in windows in a window coz i like it to view other things in my desktop and with a 22" lcd there's no problem with space :D:D:D:D:D

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery