Bernard Victor wrote: >I am running Mandrake 7.2, but would like to upgrade to 8.2, which I presume >should be better. However when I tried to do an upgrade, I lost all my Wine >settings. I need to run Wine, so I can use a couple of Windows applications, >which do not appear to yet have Linux equivalents. They are Quicken and >Agent. > >It appears that Wine now stores its config files in a different location and >uses a different syntax. Is this correct, or can I still use my old >configure file. > >I also lost read/write access to my windows partition except when logged on >as root. There did not appear to be an easy way of changing permissions, but >perhaps I could not find it. I tried editing my fstab file but then go >errors on boot up. Again can I preserve my present fstab file, or is there >an easy way of giving users full access to my windows partition. > >I hope someone can find the time to answer these queries, or perhaps the >only interest is in people using versions 8 onwards. >Bernard Victor >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > I never use Wine before so I can't answer that question, but if you lose read/write access to your windows partition, you can fix it by setting the correct permission to the mount point (/mnt/windows for example)
Vinh N. Pham
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