wine: notepad OK, others not

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thursday 01 May 2008 08:00:23 perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> You have to mount the floppy and then link a: to the mount point.
>> So if you mount it under /mnt you'd need this:
>>
>> mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt
>> ln -s /mnt ~/.wine/dosdevices/a:
> 
> That got only a little bit farther.  It did find the setup program,
> and 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_'
> 
> 
> and it locked up the display so that CtrlAltF1 would not switch
> to a text screen (although it did allow AltTab to bring up FVWM's
> window list).  After clicking OK:
> 
> 
>                              Visio Setup
> 
>                            i Setup failed.
> 
> 
> and it quit.

Were there any messages printed in the terminal window?
What version of Visio is this?

You might also want to try on a Linux system if you have that
somewhere, just to see if it works there.

Also, you should really take this to the wine-users at winehq.org
mailing list. The people there should know more about this than
here on a FreeBSD mailing list.