On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:53:01 -0400, Vincent Povirk wrote: >> There are three windows partitions on this machine besides the linux >> one. The wine c: points to HDA1. There is a real windows directory >> there, but it doesn't show up in terminal when looking at wine. Maybe >> the multiple partitions (on two physical drives) are throwing wine off? > You should really let Wine use the c: directory that it creates. I don't > think using another drive as c: is really a supported setup (in fact I've > heard running things from vfat partitions is known to cause weird problems > and suspect ntfs could do the same). > > Wine comes with its own windows directory, its own dlls, and its own > programs that you shouldn't mess with (except on occasion if it doesn't > happen to provide some dll or you have to to get some program to run). > > Some people like to copy program files directly from a windows partition > and try to run them. That doesn't always work, much like copying program > files from one windows machine to another doesn't always work (often the > program relies on something like registry entries, and if this is the case > then there's no way wine could run it properly). That's why the > documentation says to run the installer on wine. > > Otherwise, creating drive letters for your other partitions shouldn't be a > problem. > > If you want to start over, you can always rename your .wine directory to > something else and it'll make a new one. OK. Thanks for the help. people. I found my main problem was wine wasn't installed properly. I got it running by deleting it and loading the latest from Wine HQ. I know wine is operational because I was able to load and run and old version of TurboCAD. I am attempting to get AutoCAD200 to work. It seems every time I jump through a hoop, there is another behind it! I got the DLLs in the right place, finally. Now it appears there is a line of code that does something screwy. I am not a programmer and don't know how to debug it. here is where I am: *********************** ron@ron-desktop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/ACAD2000$ wine acad wine: Call from 0x6372b436 to unimplemented function ac1st15.dll.?__acMalloc@@YIPAXI@Z, aborting wine: Unimplemented function ac1st15.dll.?__acMalloc@@YIPAXI@Z called at address 0x6372b436 (thread 002f), starting debugger... Usage: winedbg [ [ --gdb ] [ prog-name [ prog-args ] | <num> | file.mdmp | --help ] ********************** -- Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA http://www.plansandprojects.com My hobby pages are here: http://www.plansandprojects.com/My%20Machines/ The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users