wine: app won't install from floppy

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

What is the correct way of installing something into wine from
floppy?  The obvious approach:

  $ wine 'a:\setup.exe'

did not work with a (fairly old version of) Visio:  the option
dialogs seemed to work properly, but very shortly after starting
the actual install I got an error box:


                             VISIO Setup

   ! Tried to create an invalid path using 'A:\' and 'clipart.vs_'


It somehow locked out CtrlAltF1 so I could not switch to a text
screen, but AltTab did bring up FVWM's window list (thus making
it possible to transcribe the error message into an xterm that
was not related to the wine session).

After clicking OK I got an info box:


                             Visio Setup

                           i Setup failed.


and it quit when I clicked OK there.

Comparing the contents of .wine before/after the attempt, it seems
the only change involves the font entries in the registry:

  $ diff -r wineBak .wine
  diff -r wineBak/system.reg .wine/system.reg
  9082c9082
  < [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts] 1208923638
  ---
  > [Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts] 1209616619
  diff -r wineBak/user.reg .wine/user.reg
  453c453
  < [Software\\Wine\\Fonts] 1208923638
  ---
  > [Software\\Wine\\Fonts] 1209616619
  456c456
  < [Software\\Wine\\Fonts\\External Fonts] 1208923638
  ---
  > [Software\\Wine\\Fonts\\External Fonts] 1209616619

and of course I have no clue whether this makes any difference to
anything.

  $ uname -a
  FreeBSD fbsd70.uucp 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

  $ wine --version
  wine-0.9.48

a: is symlinked to /fd in .wine/dosdevices and /dev/fd0 is mounted
on /fd