WINE issue

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Hi,

Hoping someone can give me a quick answer to this.

Running Ubuntu from usb pen drive, installed WINE in order to install Eve Online on to my usb harddrive.

Wine has read the install files fine while unpacking but it's now sitting at the point where I need to chose the usb hdd as the destination and it just isn't detected.

I've gone in to configure WINE > Drives > autodetect and it's found the C:, cd drive, usb pen drive but no usb hdd.

Any advice? (in noob talk :) )

2nd edit.

I've found the USB drive under z:\media\USB- and when I select \games\eve it's telling me I only have 0.666gb left when in fact I have over 40gb left.
 
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mount
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/dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/harv/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=harv)
/dev/sr1 on /media/cdrom1 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=harv)
/dev/sda1 on /media/System Reserved type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/USB- type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)

df -h
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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             7.0G  3.4G  3.4G  51% /
udev                  990M  288K  990M   1% /dev
none                  990M  280K  990M   1% /dev/shm
none                  990M  208K  990M   1% /var/run
none                  990M     0  990M   0% /var/lock
none                  990M     0  990M   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sr1              6.7M  6.7M     0 100% /media/cdrom1
/dev/sda1              75G   15G   61G  20% /media/System Reserved
/dev/sdc1             233G  185G   49G  80% /media/USB-
 
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It's obviously mounted ok and has space on it, the only thing I can think of RE the low disk space is if the external drive has some sort of trash folder on it where it stores files after you have deleted them. I have had this on a couple of occasions with flash drives, not sure about HDD's though.

Try cd'ing to /media/USB- and do ls -a, see if there is a hidden trash folder or something similar. If not then I'm stuck for ideas.
 
I can't help you with your usb drive problem but I can tell you that Eve runs very well on Wine using various Ubuntu flavours and Mint. However I don't know weather you know, but for all Ubuntu flavours including Mint you will need to either edit you Eve prefs.ini file every time you wish to launch Eve to get it to work or you will need to use a script to do it for you when you launch it.

This is the pearl script I use to do it, you can adapt it to your specific circumstances, such as location of the file and resolution etc. The bitsCacelled 1 to 0 is what is being changed everytime, once this is at 1 Eve will not launch under Ubuntu 9.10 until it's switched back to 0. To use this script you will need to open gedit or another text editor and save it as a .pl file and then make it executable, which is just right click, properties and tick the box 'Allow executing file as program' ...and that's it. Remember to edit the location and resolution to fit your setup though.

I apologise if I just told you a load of stuff you already know :p

perl -pi -e 's/bitsCancelled=1/bitsCancelled=0/' "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/users/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/CCP/EVE/c_program_files_ccp_eve_tranquility/settings/prefs.ini" && wine explorer /desktop=1,1920x1080 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe" &
 
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