wine problems with vfat (fat32) partition

stephelton

My XP install has all my games set up on a 160gb fat32 partition, in hopes that gentoo would be able to load the games and write to configs, etc. when necessary.

But of course something has to go wrong.

Whenever I try to load any of the games (aka wine Steam.exe or winex3 Steam.exe) it tells me that the .exe cannot be loaded as a win32 binary.

If I copy the files to my reiserfs partition all is well, except that I don't want duplicate files, and I want to keep my resierfs partition small if possible.

Furthermore, when I first had gentoo up and running, I could run wine with files on that drive, but unfortunately my 3d acceleration wasn't running yet. It took a lot of trial and error and reconfiguring things and messing with config files and recompiling kernels to get that working, and when I finally did, I could no longer use wine on my fat32 partition!

So.... It's possible that wine was never working with vfat in the first place, and was returning errors about my glx setup and not mentioning anything about win32 binaries. But it's also possible that I changed something and it quit working.

I've done a lot of searching on gentoo forums, wine forums, google, and asked in #gentoo, #winehq, and #winex and no one has heard of this problem. The only thing I got out of searching google is that other people have had this problem and that one person fixed it by messing with fstab (which did not help me).

an excerpt from my fstab:

latz-twn · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 3:25 am Post subject:

I have exactly the same problem, my windows partition is a fat32 partition and my linux partitions are all ext2.

But the same problem I always have to copy everything my ext2 to be able to play a game with wine.

stephelton · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 8:35 am Post subject:

ahh. well if you find a solution please post it here!
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stephelton · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

ttt
there must be a solution out there....
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stephelton · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 10:30 am Post subject:

anyone?
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stephelton · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 3:28 am Post subject:

ttt....
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Rainmaker · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:

maybe try

http://bugs.winehq.org/query.cgi

My browser doesn't work on this page for some reason... Maybe there's a bug posted?
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stephelton · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 10:08 am Post subject:

thanks for the resource but i still didn't find anything. could be a bug, but it seems to me like using fat32 partitions would be very a common solution for sharing files between operating systems that many others would have reported the same problem.

*sigh*
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stephelton · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

perhaps, then, this is a bug... latz-twn and anyone else who has this problem should post some system information... architecture, kernel, motherboard, hard drive, etc.
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