problem restoring steam backup

[OSOfChoice]

Hi All,

Quite some time ago, when I had vista installed on my Dell Inspiron 1720, I had taken a backup of my steam games using steam's backup option. Recently, I had just discovered WINE and had managed to get steam running under it on Ubuntu 8.10. Now, I inserted my first backup DVD - This has a program called steam-restore.exe - trying to run this and selecting "restore steam games" shows an error saying not enough disk space to run steam - I checked the space of my home folder drive and there's over a 100 GB available!
I would appreciate any assistance.

[fabertawe]

I've never tried restoring a Steam backup but maybe it's trying to restore relative to the .exe's location, i.e. the DVD? Try copying the files to disk first.

[OSOfChoice]

Thanks for your reply fabertawe! I'll check this out and let you know.