IneedAname wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:21:40 -0600 > "vajorie" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The only version of firefox that I knew would call to libraries in my harddisk was the portable one. but of course, *that* is being invoked by wine, which is in my hard drive, so I'm stuck again :)) > > > > my pc doesn't use swap. but accessing files on disk (iowait?) takes long... so if I can take the wine+firefox group and put it on RAM, I'd be good to go. > > > > and where else would I ask how to get wine into RAM if not in the wine forums lol > > > > > Google is your friend. > > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-GB%3Aunofficial&hs=9U5&q=linux+ram+disk&btnG=Search&meta= I'm using tmpfs (same logic - a directory in RAM). But I don't know how to throw everything that wine uses (and wine itself) into that directory... I guess this should have been the question of my first post, but I'm bad at asking clear questions :))) so, the clear question qould be, now, "I have created a tmpfs directory in my home directory. how do I throw wine and all its libraries and everything into that directory so that all wine uses is the files in that directory?" sorry about that.