"Bob Wya" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fredd wrote: > > Yeah, ok. I installed F.E.A.R. from DVD. Also i didn't > > install it on drive c i installed it on root, drive z. > > ... > 1) RTFM > Wine FAQ : 7.11. Should I run Wine as root? > (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014) I think the "root" that Fredd referred to is "the root directory of the Linux file system" (specifically, I suspect, a path starting there, rather than installing into the root directory itself) and not "the 'root' user identity". Usually there are places outside one's own home directory which are writable by unprivileged users, /var/tmp being perhaps the most well known. /some/other/mounted/filesystem might be another example. Yes, either of these is probably better accomplished by mapping another drive in winecfg.
