[lug] Problems with WINE

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Responses inline...

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 at 21:02 -0700, D. Stimits soliloquized thusly:
> Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> 
> "Permission denied" looks like a good place to start. Why is it trying 
> to find files in the lost+found directory of linux? I don't have any 
> experience with wine, but if it can be run as root, give it a shot...see 

FYI, it may be possible to run WINE as root, but it is not possible to
run the setup utility.

> what happens if you temporarily give rx perms to that particular 
> lost+found (chmod 755). And if you ever try to write to an NTFS 

Haven't figured out why it's trying to access 'lost+found', but changing
the permissions does make any difference.

> partition (is this vfat or NTFS?), you are out of luck...if you are 
> actually brave enough to add write support to NTFS, you are better off 
> crashing wine than succeeding.

Yeah, I'm aware of this, which is why I use FAT32 :-)

> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
> ...
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