Re: wine and ikernel.exe

Robby Russell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
Organization PLANET ARGON
Message-ID <1097113121.7040.56.camel@vacant>
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 16:27 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:10:56 -0700, Robby Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I finally took some time today to play around with wine for a while. I
> > got photoshop running and got optimistic and tried to install
> > Illustrator and IKernel.exe failed..which is InstallShield Engine..but I
> > think it has to do with not being able to write to the temp directory.
> iKernel failures almost always mean one of two things:
> 1) not enough permissions somewhere (and it won't readilly tell you
> where :) Make sure everything under wine's "fake windows" directory is
> writeable, and you have all necessary drives defined (C:, and whatever
> else is mentioned in any of your Windows variables, like Y: in your
> case).
> 
> 2) unsupported installer (in which case you're pretty much screwed).
> Sometimes you can copy installed program from Windows

Another scenario with temp folder.

I get an 'Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder if
valid.'

What should I be pointing Temp to?

> "Temp" = "C:\\Temp"
> 


> [Drive C]
> "Path" = "/home/matchboy/.wine/fake_windows"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "/home/matchboy/.wine/fake_windows"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"


> $ ls -l ../fake_windows/
> total 20
> drwxrwxr-x   2 matchboy matchboy 4096 Oct  6 10:22 My Documents
> drwxrwxr-x   4 matchboy matchboy 4096 Oct  6 10:22 Program Files
> drwxrwxr-x   2 matchboy matchboy 4096 Oct  6 10:22 Recycled
> drwxrwxr-x   2 matchboy matchboy 4096 Oct  6 10:22 Temp
> drwxrwxr-x  17 matchboy matchboy 4096 Oct  6 10:22 Windows
> 

So, it's not writing to that directory...

What are you using for your temp settings?

-Robby


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