Go to www.winehq.org and then the downloads section. You;ll see a link to rpm's from one of the SuSE developers for wine. Get the wine-20021010-0.i586.rpm and install it. I has directx 7 on it and a change log of updates shows improvements related to instalss. Give it a whirl. Oh, and don't forget to run winesetup again. HTH, Curtis. On Saturday 02 November 2002 07:32, zentara wrote:

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:21:06 +0200

jaakko tamminen wrote:

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I'm first time starting to play with Wine.

My spouse have a game on CD, and when I'm trying to install it with Wine, it comes up with a small "M$" kind of window with only "OK" button, and no text.

When I click on that, the installation stops.

On the lower-edge of screen there is "xxx installation wizard" or something like that (it is in Finnish), that has progress bar up to 100%.. This looks as it should.

What can I do??

If you have a dual boot, the first thing to try, is to install the game to a real windows system, and see if wine will run it, after it is installed. The standard wine dosn't handle installing too well. If it runs, then copy it off to your linux system, and tar it up as a backup.

If you don't have a dual boot, you can still install it on some windows machine, then zip it up and ftp it to your linux system. You might have to tweak it, by getting it's ini files, etc.

Hi Thanx for the advice. The game did install, but it does not run.. shame. But no harm done, it was just a kind of test, if that would run under Linux. Jaska. On Saturday 02 November 2002 20:59, Curtis Rey wrote:

Go to www.winehq.org and then the downloads section. You;ll see a link to rpm's from one of the SuSE developers for wine. Get the wine-20021010-0.i586.rpm and install it. I has directx 7 on it and a change log of updates shows improvements related to instalss. Give it a whirl. Oh, and don't forget to run winesetup again.

HTH, Curtis.

On Saturday 02 November 2002 07:32, zentara wrote:

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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:21:06 +0200

jaakko tamminen wrote:

...

I'm first time starting to play with Wine.

My spouse have a game on CD, and when I'm trying to install it with Wine, it comes up with a small "M$" kind of window with only "OK" button, and no text.

When I click on that, the installation stops.

On the lower-edge of screen there is "xxx installation wizard" or something like that (it is in Finnish), that has progress bar up to 100%.. This looks as it should.

What can I do??

If you have a dual boot, the first thing to try, is to install the game to a real windows system, and see if wine will run it, after it is installed. The standard wine dosn't handle installing too well. If it runs, then copy it off to your linux system, and tar it up as a backup.

If you don't have a dual boot, you can still install it on some windows machine, then zip it up and ftp it to your linux system. You might have to tweak it, by getting it's ini files, etc.

** This email message from Jeric on 02 Nov 2002 22:38:47 -0600 Will be delivered via Owl Services Dept **Wine doesn't have much support for DirectX...however, **www.transgaming.com uses wine source with extensive DirectX support for **games. but, doesn't this open up your linux box to windows threats? At least those that are inherent in MS directX anyway ? Guess everything needs tp run in a carefully guarded sandbox , huh j, as always tripping along the bleeding edge.. SuSE 8.1 ; ( patched, thanx for asking) PBM 129x afterthought: BREAKFAST.COM halted ... cereal port not responding.