On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM, samclam <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just got Wine 1.1.13 on Ubuntu 8.10 tried to map D: to my Windows partition /dev/sda5 /media/DATA but Wine wouldn't keep my choice and reverts to /media/cdrom0. Why are you mounting that drive? To read data, or to run programs from it? Former, okay, later, don't do it. > Found out that permissions for ~/.wine/dosdevices/d: were root only and couldn't change them. So I deleted d: & d:: and made new symbolic links Did you run wine as sudo/root? > $ sudo rm -r /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d* > $ ln -s /media/DATA /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d: > $ ln -s /dev/sda5 /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d:: > > which fixed my problem. > > Is this a bug as I never had this problem before? $5 says you've run wine as root/sudo, in which case, not a bug, but misconfiguration. -- -Austin
