Re: [guide-user] Guide 9 under Wine installation

Bill J Gray Dec 27, 2011

Hi George,

Hadn't heard about this one before! (Nor the slightly different
problem Arturo mentions with 'setup' under Wine.)

The Setup program from the DVD did work for me (and is essentially
the same as the "revised" Setup program for Guides 7 and 8). _However_,
it occurs to me that it may have done so because I went into Wineconfig
and gave the DVD a drive letter of its own.

I got a report of a related issue a while back: under Windows,
somebody copied everything from the DVD drive to a USB memory stick,
putting it in a folder such as f:\guide9. Then they tried running
f:\guide9\setup.exe, and it failed. The Setup program does assume
that it's running from a DVD, and therefore in the root folder.

I will investigate; I _think_ this won't be tough to fix. In
the meantime... just use Winecfg to make a drive letter for the DVD,
and all should be well. (Please let me know if it is not; it may
affect any work I do on Setup.)

-- Bill