On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, sgtbob <rrunion@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I tried your suggestion and met with varying results - but still reading and > trying. > > I have two identical 160 GB HDD's - one with Windows installed and one with > Ubuntu installed. Can you tell me if the .exe has to reside on the windows > drive or on the Ubuntu drive? I have met with limited results in trying to > do a wine Legacy6Setup.exe from the terminal - basically says not > available... > > I 'think' I was able to install the Legacy program by putting it on my > Ubuntu desktop, but when I tried to run it, I encountered an 'error 545 ' or > some such number. I have been able to access the 'C:' drive, which I presume > is on the Windows HDD, but when I try to open a file from Legacy (eg. > Bob.fdb - which is my genealogy file), the only .fdb seen is one that is a > sample.fdb that came with the program, which will not load, even though I > can see teh fiel I want if I go to Windows. > > Maybe I'm expecting too much from Wine with my limited knowledge of Linux. > What I had hoped to do was to use my Ubuntu to work with files and programs > installed on my Windows HDD with the Ubuntu Wine package. Am I > misinterpreting what it should/would do? > Do not run programs from an NTFS drive/windows installation. Run the setup in Ubuntu, and run it from wine's virtual drive_c.
