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Killerah
September 15th, 2008, 05:47 AM
Hi there, I'm a big fan of wine and I've used it successfully in the past to run all sorts of things including games. I just recently got a program called Bibleworks and I've read some guides on how to run it, it seems pretty straightforward, but here's my issue:

I dual boot and I've got it installed in windows but it takes up 6 gigs of my hard disk. This wouldn't be such a concern if I had 6 more gigs to spare on my linux partition, but since I don't I was hoping to be able to run it from my windows install. It seems like it should work, but it's looking for certain files in the wrong C: drive and I'm not aware of any specific setting that changes that in the program.

What I am hoping is that there is some way to make program specific drive mappings. If I could map the C drive to my real C drive for only this specific program I'm sure it would work just fine. Does anyone know of any way I can do this?

Thank you very much,
Nate

asdfoo
September 18th, 2008, 03:31 AM
Hi there, I'm a big fan of wine and I've used it successfully in the past to run all sorts of things including games. I just recently got a program called Bibleworks and I've read some guides on how to run it, it seems pretty straightforward, but here's my issue:

I dual boot and I've got it installed in windows but it takes up 6 gigs of my hard disk. This wouldn't be such a concern if I had 6 more gigs to spare on my linux partition, but since I don't I was hoping to be able to run it from my windows install. It seems like it should work, but it's looking for certain files in the wrong C: drive and I'm not aware of any specific setting that changes that in the program.

What I am hoping is that there is some way to make program specific drive mappings. If I could map the C drive to my real C drive for only this specific program I'm sure it would work just fine. Does anyone know of any way I can do this?

Thank you very much,
Nate

Hi

This isn't a good idea, since it may damage your windows install. It's similar to dual booting two different versions of windows and then pointing them at each others files.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a295d53dd3444f211df2b13312c7767afa2

You need to reinstall your programs using Wine.