Ubuntu: How to play PC Bin/Cue files?

hey there,

just made redundant, want to play my fav. game. But, just downloaded it (legally, actually), but i can't do anything with the files as it only worked on Windows b4.

I downloaded Football Manager 2005 for PC. I read around and it apparently can work on Ubuntu. I have 8.10.

I read about Wine etc, this would not let me mount the bin file. I thied GISO mount, but it won't mount it either. I've tried to convert the files to ISOs, but this didnt work, it wouldnt convert.

Any ideas, i'm bored without a job, and i can only do so much searching a day.

Cheers, you'd be improving a man's happiness.

James

just try

modprobe loop
in your terminal.

if it gives you no request:
sudo apt-get install loop

after that mount your file with:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /your/directory/of/.bin /cdrom

(you can use any folder instead of /cdrom)

Hi, i entered 'modprobe loop' in terminal it said some error. I then entered 'sudo apt-get install loop' and it said

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package loop

I'm totally new to this, i'm not sure how to type location in of bin. It's on my desktop, the bin and cue is called fm2005.bin/cue. i've managed to use AcetoneISO2 which mounts the bin to a virtual drive. It allows me to click the setup.exe, opens the fm install page then says it can't proceed.

Man, i'm dying to play this game, being jobless is poo!

Cheers

actoniso gives you an easy advantage :D

so you mounted that file "somewhere"

so i think it should show up "somewhere"

maybe on you desktop. so if "fm install" shows up...
just hit next ^^
a few times i think... after you installed it you HAVE TO add an nocd patch/crack to play it. cause its copy protected and linux got some problems with successfully checking "originals"

maybe megagames.com will help ;)

the game would be installed to C:\Program Files\Football Manager\....
so place the crack/patch there!

if you dont know where it is or if install tells you there is no such drive...
so just type winecfg in you terminal ---> this will open an window where you can change many settings 4 wine! even the drives ...

on a clean install the drive would be at:
/home/username/.wine/drive_c

so to start the game you have to type:
wine /home/username/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Football Manager 2005/???.exe

hope that helps ;)
this game should work properly under linux ...

cheers for that. I'll be honet,i'm lost! Yes, when i mount the bin file, a virtual drive appears on my desktop, just called 'A'. If i click on it, it shows several folders (including the crack) and the executable in there is 'autorun.exe'. If i click that, it says something in French about something (cant copy text) then stops installing. I know this game works on my pc as i used to play it on xp.

Now,C:/...i didnt think i had one on Linux?

Cheers for your help, much appreciated.

James

EDIT

I did the winecfg, if brought up this:

"err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"C:\\windows" (2)
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
" and then opened a Windows style options (audio tabs etc)'

2nd EDIT

I added a C: on the Wine config, now what? :(

so sry for late reply...

just try

sudo winecfg

and enter your password (sudo means acting as an admin)
if this doesnt work...

use the command
su
and enter !admin! password!
after that try
winecfg

but youre on the right track ;)

//edit
there should occour no errors eny more... if they even appear in your terminal
ignore them and go to Drives tab ;)
there you should see some drives used under wine.

add one @ this folder:
/home/yourusername/games
give it an letter like x or a or d or anything xD

ok, i do the sudo config it just says 'jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ sudo winecfg
wine: /home/jamie/.wine is not owned by you
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$
' (Jamie is me , hi!)

I don't know why its saying things about ownership, i keep trying to delete a file from my trashcan, and it says i dont have permisssion either. My computer thinks it is boss.

eyyy ^^ you arent using windows anymore :D

now you are the boss ;)


'jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ sudo winecfg
wine: /home/jamie/.wine is not owned by you

means that wine was installed 4 jamie ... (/home/jamie/.wine)
so no other user on your system is allowed to use it ... e.g. jamie.

so just dont use sudo for wine...sry... my fault...

try to add an folder with winecfg (as jamie)
hmm should work also when errors appear.

or ... just give an detailed output on what happens when you start the setup.exe on the cd.

just it cant proceed?

.....
and so on
the commmand su lets you change to the root account!
its the master account what can mess your pc so be carefully :D
but i see you dont know your root password... or no one has been set...
think in ubuntu you can do this by clicking system/administration/users and groups ;)

edit:
where are is your trash ? desktop?
and you cant delete things in there?
sounds a bit strange...
a little tut:
terminal:
ls //gives you an output on files and folders that are in your current dir
ls -la // shows hidden files and folders and post it in a user friendly output//also permissions are shown here

open a terminal:
type
cd ~
that will change into your home folder... (in your case /home/jamie)
ls -la
now you will see .wine
get into this dir with
cd .wine
ls -la
do you see drive_c ?=???

ok, when i go to winecfg, drives tab, it shows i have:

c: ../drive_c
d: /media/cdrom0
E: /
H: /home/jamie
Z: /

I did the last part in the terminal, in wine it said:
'jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ cd .wine
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine$ ls -la
total 644
drwxr-xr-x 3 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-23 21:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 53 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-23 20:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-23 20:04 dosdevices
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 599421 2009-02-23 21:09 system.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 11 2009-02-22 10:57 .update-timestamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 2365 2009-02-23 21:08 userdef.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 30943 2009-02-23 21:09 user.reg
'

I changed my permissions in the groups tab, another new thing i've learnt!

hmmm try to change permissions for /home/jamie/.wine
to 775

with:
chmod -R 775 /home/jamie/.wine

then run winecfg again...

now the directory drive_c should appear

//edit
775 means: write, reading, executing
7 everyone
5 only "users in group of owner" and "root"

morning! I did as above, here the script: '

jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ chmod -R 775 /home/jamie/.wine
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ winecfg
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"C:\\windows" (2)
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 2
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3".

Man, im itching to play!! :(

okay you really messed up your wine install somehow ^^

so try to rename /home/jamie/.wine
with following command:
mv /home/jamie/.wine /home/jamie/.wine1

after that launch winecfg again ;)

give errorness output if available ^^

edit:
mv means moving... so renaming is the same as moving an file/folder... ;)

ok, heres what came up:

'jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ mv /home/jamie/.wine /home/jamie/.wine1
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ winecfg
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/jamie/.wine'

err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33cf94
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\gecko\\0.9.1\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x33c960 (nil)
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x7cfda898, overlapped 0x7cfda8a0): stub
fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\gecko\\0.9.1\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x33ca50 (nil)
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plugins\npnul32.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plc4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xpcom.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plds4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xul.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\freebl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nspr4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\smime3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssutil3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\sqlite3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssdbm3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\js3250.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssckbi.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\softokn3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nss3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[1c8ce8]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\ssl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
wine: configuration in '/home/jamie/.wine' has been updated.
"
It opened the Wine config box, and my drives are now just c:(mapped to ../drive_c) and Z:.
Would it be easier for me to fresh install wine?

Are you in US? Thank you for you patience. I believe teaching me once will mean i can help others in the future.

damned :pinch:

but youre right...

you really need to rebuild the kernel modul 4 wine.

in order
sudo apt-get remove wine
should work
after that do a fresh install
sudo apt-get install wine

and look out for any errors in your terminal while installing!

got this done... winecfg should finally work

if it doesnt:
try to remove whole wine with any cinfig file included:
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine

and no im not in the us...
sure getting startet with linux isnt that easy :D
but starting with windows applications in linux is much more difficult ;)
but everything can be solved :yup:

ok, removed no prob. I think i reinstalled ok, but just in case this is what was said:
"
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
menu debhelper module-assistant intltool-debian libapr1 po-debconf libhd14
libmail-sendmail-perl libsvn1 gettext libgcj-common deborphan
classpath-gtkpeer libgtk2-gladexml-perl xawtv-plugins classpath-common cacao
libpq5 html2text classpath libaprutil1 libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
msttcorefonts
The following NEW packages will be installed
wine
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8161kB of archives.
After this operation, 61.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package wine.
(Reading database ... 114189 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wine (from .../wine_1.1.15~winehq0~ubuntu~8.10-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up wine (1.1.15~winehq0~ubuntu~8.10-0ubuntu4) ...
* Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.conf)... [ OK ]
* Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/10-console-messages.conf)... [ OK ]
* Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/10-network-security.conf)... [ OK ]
* Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/10-process-security.conf)... [ OK ]
* Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/30-tracker.conf)... [ OK ]
* Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.d/wine.sysctl.conf)... [ OK ]

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
"
when i did winecfg this time, no errors came up this time in terminal, and opened the config immediately. The drives present are again C: (../drive_c) and z:. (does it matter i have the bin file unmounted at present?)

sounds great :D

so be patient if you ran out of space or something remember this line:
"The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
menu debhelper module-assistant intltool-debian libapr1 po-debconf libhd14
libmail-sendmail-perl libsvn1 gettext libgcj-common deborphan
classpath-gtkpeer libgtk2-gladexml-perl xawtv-plugins classpath-common cacao
libpq5 html2text classpath libaprutil1 libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them."
;)

now get that game mounted again with acetoneiso ... in case there is no need for configuring wine... it does everything it needs when you start winecfg for the first time!

sou if go to /home/jamie/.wine there should now be a folder called drive_c (remember ls -la) :shifty:


now get to your folder where acetoneiso mountet the image:
eg.
/home/jamie/Desktop/A/
and give it ls -la once again :D
now there should be your setup.exe
call it with
wine setup.exe

the installation should work properly without any errors... and you should be able to choose where to install ---> C:\Program Files\Blablabla ||| equals to ||| /home/jamie/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Blablabla

got it ?

ok

1 - removed packages as above.
2 - mounted fm2005.bin to Acetoneiso2, this opened a drive on my desktop called '1'
3 - Went into Wine directory, did ls -la command. I can see C: here
'drwxr-xr-x 4 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 08:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 54 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 08:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 07:49 dosdevices
drwxr-xr-x 4 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 07:50 drive_c
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 484041 2009-02-24 08:09 system.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 11 2009-02-24 07:49 .update-timestamp
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 2365 2009-02-24 08:08 userdef.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 27235 2009-02-24 08:09 user.reg
'
4: I tried to open 1 drive through terminal using
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ cd /home/jamie/Desktop/A/
bash: cd: /home/jamie/Desktop/A/: No such file or directory
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$
but it couldnt see it. Also, if i go find the folder through places>desktop the only folder showing desktop is the one with the .bin file in, the '1' drive is not there, it has its own drive in the places column (between cd-rom and bin). Is this a prob??

EDIT

I managed to get in and did ran the only.exe file, which was autorun.exe and it started to install, but had an error (it's in French, trying to transate now. HEre was the terminal script:

jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ cd virtual-drives/1/
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1$ ls -la
total 116
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-23 09:31 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 124598 2004-10-11 12:33 00000000.016
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 250678 2004-10-11 12:33 00000000.256
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 2004-10-11 12:33 00000001.TMP
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23040 2004-10-10 18:16 autorun.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 27 2004-07-06 11:40 autorun.inf
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-10-30 01:22 CRACK
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 41472 2004-10-11 12:33 DrvMgt.dll
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-10-11 15:47 MAC
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-10-12 13:54 PC
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11973 2004-10-11 12:33 SECDRV.SYS
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1$ wine setup.exe
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1$ wine autorun.exe
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1$ fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" (nil) 0x33f80c (nil) 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" 0x131c00 0x33f80c 0x1359a0 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
err:msi:msi_dialog_set_font No font entry for L"VerdanaBold14"
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 8 ignored L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 49 ignored L"CreateFolder" table values
err:msi:msi_cabextract FDICopy failed
err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Failed to extract cabinet: L"Data1.cab"
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFinalize" returned 1627
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1627
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1$

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jimtiimber

4: I tried to open 1 drive through terminal using
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ cd /home/jamie/Desktop/A/
bash: cd: /home/jamie/Desktop/A/: No such file or directory
jamie@jamie-laptop:~$
but it couldnt see it. Also, if i go find the folder through places>desktop the only folder showing desktop is the one with the .bin file in, the '1' drive is not there, it has its own drive in the places column (between cd-rom and bin). Is this a prob??

---

okay sry... ^^
i thought it was A the new mounted volume is called...

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/images/iso/2.png

hmm i dunno acetoneiso well so i dont know where it mounts the image when you hit the button...

you could take a look for setup.exe in following dirs:
/media/
/mnt/
/home/jamie/.nameofbin
/home/jamie/.acetoneiso/

or just klick the browse image button in acetoneiso gui ?!

but i think it is mountet somwhere in /home/jamie

if you dont come to an point with that ...
mount the bin!
sudo apt-get install locate
sudo updatedb
locate setup.exe

this should give you the path =)

---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------

okay ^^

dont use the file autorun...

get in the folder called PC
there should be an setup.exe or something else

dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-10-12 13:54 PC

(the d on the beginning of that lien means its an DIRECTORY =)

as above, i manafed to try install, the fm2005 instal page came up, tried to unpack but stopped with a French error message that just tranlates as 'The assistant was interrupted before the end of the installation of FM 2005. No modification was brought on the system. To finish the installation later, want to restart the installation. '

Booo. This isn't going to work is it? Shame, i know i works on this laptop as i used to play it withXP.

hmm i never tried this game i only thought i can help you...

but this page here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=2507

shows up every working game/application that was manufactured for windows and is working "properly" in linux/wine

so this game got a GOLD ranking! means it has to work!

this isnt an original copy of the game isnt it ? :naughty:

but that shouldnt be the problem...

im stuck :frusty:

is the image corrupt? maybe?

I went into the PC folder and wine setup.exe. It went through the same process, asked where i wanted to save it, i chose C:/sports interactive/blahhhhhh and it checked my pc has enough space, then go to start installing packages (with the time bar) it brings up the error message at this point.

I'm sure the game i 'found' was original once. I'm quite sure the bin is not corrupt, i used the same version fromt he same source that i used on XP. Is there a way to check a files 'corruptedness'?

Am appreciating your suppprt!

hmm the only way to check if its okay... is using the md5sum hash ... but it would be useless if you dont know the original one.

so if its a torrent ^^ give it a forced check :D


so can you give me an output of whats into that pc folder?
there must be an file linux cant process... or something on some reason? ^^

mmm, i was unsure about the copy considering all the beep'ing around with it i did at the beginning, so, i'm 5 mins aways from a fresh sharing of the the game from a good source.

UPDATE

Nope, not working either. It does exactly the same process as the other copy. To answer your earlier q, what is in the bin file is:

CRACK: (fm2005.exe file)
Mac: (fm2005.dmg file)
PC: (4x.ini files,4x.mst files, data1.cab, fm2oo5.bmp,fm2005.msi, instmsia.exe, instmsiw.exe, setup.exe, setup.ini,
Other files in fm folder: 00001.tmp, autorun.exe, autorun.inf, drvmgt.dll, secdrv.sys.

jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1/PC$ ls -la
total 95403
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2004-10-12 13:54 .
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 1970-01-01 01:00 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6265 2004-04-07 11:24 0x040a.ini
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6394 2004-04-07 14:04 0x040c.ini
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6160 2004-04-07 14:30 0x0410.ini
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 6076 2004-04-08 17:31 0x0816.ini
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 89600 2004-10-12 13:50 1034.mst
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3584 2004-10-12 13:50 1036.mst
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 99328 2004-10-12 13:50 1040.mst
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 93184 2004-10-12 13:50 2070.mst
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 381947517 2004-10-12 13:49 Data1.cab
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 640056 2004-09-02 12:40 fm2005 splash.bmp
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4099380 2004-10-12 13:50 Football Manager 2005.msi
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1708856 2002-03-11 09:45 instmsia.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1822520 2002-03-11 10:06 instmsiw.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 249856 2004-10-12 13:29 setup.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1971 2004-10-12 13:50 Setup.ini
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1/PC$

what the terminal shows when it tries to install:
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1/PC$ wine setup
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" (nil) 0x33f80c (nil) 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" 0x131c00 0x33f80c 0x1359a0 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
err:msi:msi_dialog_set_font No font entry for L"VerdanaBold14"
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 8 ignored L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 49 ignored L"CreateFolder" table values
err:msi:msi_cabextract FDICopy failed
err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Failed to extract cabinet: L"Data1.cab"
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFinalize" returned 1627
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1627
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives/1/PC$

hmm thats an stupid error... we really should get around it :unsure:


im not sure if this works...
but try
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ sudo chmod -R u+w 1

if it gives no error then try to install the game again!

if it gives any error try the following:
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ cp -r 1 /home/jamie/.wine/drive_c/fm2005
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ cd /home/jamie/.wine/drive_c/fm2005
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ chmod 777 PC

and now try to start the installation from that directory
(/home/jamie/.wine/drive_c/fm2005/PC)

i think it is only an permission problem ... so this should get as a part ahaed :01:

this didnt work:

"
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ sudo chmod -R u+w 1
chmod: cannot access `1': Permission denied
"
I did the other commands also, heres what went on:

"
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ sudo chmod -R u+w 1
[sudo] password for jamie:
chmod: cannot access `1': Permission denied
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ cp -r 1 /home/jamie/.wine/drive_c/fm2005
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/virtual-drives$ cd /home/jamie/.wine/drive_c/fm2005
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ chmod 777 PC
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ ls -la
total 480
dr-xr-xr-x 5 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 16:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 16:13 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 124598 2009-02-24 16:13 00000000.016
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 250678 2009-02-24 16:13 00000000.256
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 2048 2009-02-24 16:13 00000001.TMP
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 23040 2009-02-24 16:18 autorun.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 27 2009-02-24 16:18 autorun.inf
dr-xr-xr-x 2 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 16:13 CRACK
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 41472 2009-02-24 16:13 DrvMgt.dll
dr-xr-xr-x 2 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 16:13 MAC
drwxrwxrwx 2 jamie jamie 4096 2009-02-24 16:18 PC
-r--r--r-- 1 jamie jamie 11973 2009-02-24 16:18 SECDRV.SYS
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ wine autorun.exe
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
err:msi:copy_package_to_temp failed to copy package L"C:\\fm2005\\PC\\Football Manager 2005.msi"
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" (nil) 0x33f80c (nil) 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" 0x131018 0x33f80c 0x134db8 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ISSetupFilesExtract" returned 1627
err:msi:remove_tracked_tempfiles failed to delete L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi700d.tmp"



When i go to browse C: in wine, i can see the files are all there. They all have padlocks on, and if i right click and change permissions to full, it automatically changes them back. I also tried to run the PC setup.exe as above, same result.

Booooooooo :(

:w00t:

jamie@jamie-laptop:~$ cd /home/jamie/.wine/drive_c
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c$ chmod 777 fm2005
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ wine autorun.exe

so this is last try for that permission thing...
after that the whole cd would be accessable and if its still not working...
and the same error occurs...
i think im going to run out of ideas?!

but just give it a chance ^^

sadly no, not working still :(

jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ wine autorun.exe
jamie@jamie-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/fm2005$ fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
err:msi:copy_package_to_temp failed to copy package L"C:\\fm2005\\PC\\Football Manager 2005.msi"
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" (nil) 0x33f80c (nil) 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"jamie" 0x131018 0x33f80c 0x134db8 0x33f810 0x33f804 - stub
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ISSetupFilesExtract" returned 1627
err:msi:remove_tracked_tempfiles failed to delete L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi9682.tmp"

Oh well,i guess i'll give up. just a shame. Thank you soo much for all your help, much appeciated, and i've learnedplenty.

James :)

i hate it when things dont work like i want them to work ^^
damn

just if you find some time...

try this command :D
wineprefixcreate

and then try installing again :shifty:


good luck in anyway with you machine ;)