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xjeff
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 Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:34 am Post subject: Wine windows reboot simulation |
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I had a problem where whenever I would try to run the internet explorer setup, it would say that my system was still pending a reboot. The question is--how do you do a fake reboot on wine? Well, I found the answer, and here it is. There is a file called WININIT.INI in your %SYSTEMROOT%\Windows folder. If you just delete this file, then wine will think your system is rebooted.
So just do a | Code: | | rm -r /home/user/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/WININIT.INI |
and you are good to go! 
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sbbeebe
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ok, so, why would you want to run IE under wine? you've got a gentoo linux installation with several excellent browsers to choose from.
are you going through reboot withdrawls? feeling the need to restart that machine every now and again? 
i can't stand to run that piece of crap (IE) on my windoze box.
ok, enough of the rant, so, why do you want to run ie on a nice gentoo install?
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xjeff
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:15 am Post subject: good question |
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Actually, I really don't need or really want IE on my (very nice) gentoo install. Back in the day I was trying to install Kazaa Lite, and wanting it to work flawlessly I needed some sort of IE install...so I came across this problem. Besides, if I did a little more web design, it would be a lot easier to check the rendering in IE through wine than rebooting into windows.
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kalisphoenix
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| Actually, that came in handy (I need IE6 to get RealRhapsody working). Thanks, man. |
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John5788
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:11 am Post subject: Re: Wine windows reboot simulation |
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| xjeff wrote: | I had a problem where whenever I would try to run the internet explorer setup, it would say that my system was still pending a reboot. The question is--how do you do a fake reboot on wine? Well, I found the answer, and here it is. There is a file called WININIT.INI in your %SYSTEMROOT%\Windows folder. If you just delete this file, then wine will think your system is rebooted.
So just do a | Code: | | rm -r /home/user/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/WININIT.INI |
and you are good to go! |
cant u just type in, wineboot?
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hikingpete
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject: wineboot |
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well, I don't really know if there is such a program already, but if that line's a bit much to type in, you could always add a line and save that as a file
wineboot:
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
rm ~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/WININIT.INI
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Once you save that from your favourite text editor, simply move it into your path, (perhaps /usr/local/bin - dunno...) and run it at your leisure. As always, look the code over and test it carefully, before you commit it to your path and use it (I doubt I'm dependable - and we're talking about rm here). You'll probably have to chmod a+x it too. It looks safe too me, but I'm fairly inexperienced, and wouldn't be suprised if someone turned up to lecture me about this. |
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John5788
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | john5788@john5788: pts/20: 11 files 311Kb -> cat /usr/lib/wine/bin/wineboot
#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper script to start a Winelib application once it is installed
#
# Copyright (C) 2002 Alexandre Julliard
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
# determine the app Winelib library name
appname=`basename "$0" .exe`.exe
# first try explicit WINELOADER
if [ -x "$WINELOADER" ]; then exec "$WINELOADER" "$appname" "$@"; fi
# then default bin directory
if [ -x "/usr/lib/wine/bin/wine" ]; then exec "/usr/lib/wine/bin/wine" "$appname" "$@"; fi
# now try the directory containing $0
appdir=""
case "$0" in
*/*)
# $0 contains a path, use it
appdir=`dirname "$0"`
;;
*)
# no directory in $0, search in PATH
saved_ifs=$IFS
IFS=:
for d in $PATH
do
IFS=$saved_ifs
if [ -x "$d/$0" ]; then appdir="$d"; break; fi
done
;;
esac
if [ -x "$appdir/wine" ]; then exec "$appdir/wine" "$appname" "$@"; fi
# finally look in PATH
exec wine "$appname" "$@" |
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hikingpete
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject: wineboot |
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| Ah, I see what you were getting at. |
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