hi guys i downloaded and installed the latest version of wine from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-20030911-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm?download but its giving problems. its just not working. every time i try to run some application using wine it starts searching for it in drive A. Here is what is shows me =============================== root@localhost root]# wine /mnt/cdrive/program\ files/mirc/mirc.exe Could not stat /mnt/floppy (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A: wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0027), starting debugger... Could not stat /mnt/floppy (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A: wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0029), starting debugger... Could not stat /mnt/floppy (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A: wine: Unhandled exception (thread 002b), starting debugger... =================================== And it goes on doing this forever, I had to do ctrl+z to stop it manually. I have edited /etc/wine/wine.conf and to the path or drive C , i changed it to /mnt/cdrive (where cdrive is the directory in /mnt where my drive C is mounted).I also changed the paths to windows directories in /etc/wine/wine.conf for example it was c:\windows, i changed it to c:\winnt ( because i am using windows 2000). But still problem seems to be there. Any one has any idea whats going on?

Firstly, I don't think it's recommended to run wine and win2000 together. 95/98 is better otherwise don't bother pointing wine.conf to a windoze install. Have you tried commenting out the A drive altogether? Have you actually run the mirc setup through wine or are you just trying to run a previously installed one on your windows drive? Downloading and compiling wine from source increases performance. Try downloading either the source or binaries from the official site: http:// www.winehq.org/ If you want to run office apps and photoshop, get codeweavers crossover office (which is a modified version of wine) from www.codeweavers.com If you want to run games, download winex (from www.transgaming.com). Ctrl & Z doesn't stop a process, it just suspends it. To stop it use Ctrl & C. If you do suspend it with Ctrl & Z, you can then type "bg" to put the process into the BackGround and carry on running (a bit like doing "command &"). You can now carry on using the terminal as usual. When you want to bring the process back to the ForeGround, type "fg".