[/quote]It should. That was stated a long time ago. Vitamin may have assumed that you were trying to install to the NTFS partition and not the EXT3 parition.[/quote] ok...cool!!! but i was in ubuntu when trying to install wine, so i imagine it would have installed to the ext3 partition, rather than the NTFS, but i don't know that for a fact! so i don't understand why wine wouldn't install then to my ext3 partition... > only when i install apps, i should install them on the hidden ext3 partition, rather than the NTFS, >or my programs wont work? well...that makes sense!! why would i try to install them on the NTFS >partition anyway, since i would be in ubuntu when installing them under Wine, which would probably >put them automatically in the ext3 partition??? > > I make no assumptions. Insure that programs are installed to Wine's C:\Program Files area when installing. I've read here of people having problems with installing programs and the cause was installation to a NTFS partition. You should be fine at this point. Try what others and I suggested and let us know if it works. James McKenzie[/quote] all right! i'll try it...whenever, that is, i can boot into my ubuntu OS again! :x THANKS! here's the ubuntu forum thread, where i posted my problem with booting into ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=992506
