wine users - Jun 2006 - it says i have to be an "administrator" and iam on a root account, is their an admin for wine?

it says i have to be an "administrdator" and iam on a root account, is
their an admin for wine?
i tried installing winxp from the boot disk onto wine, but it says i
have to be ab admin, but i am on the root account. does anyone know
why??

erman1212@gmail.com wrote:
> i tried installing winxp from the boot disk onto wine, but it says i
> have to be ab admin, but i am on the root account. does anyone know
You tried *what*?

Daniel

erman1212@gmail.com wrote:
> it says i have to be an "administrdator" and iam on a root
account, is
> their an admin for wine?
>   
No, their's only a root account for your linux system. You should run 
wine always as a normal user.
> i tried installing winxp from the boot disk onto wine, but it says i
> have to be ab admin, but i am on the root account. does anyone know
> why??
>   
I don't know what you're about to do, but if that message comes from the
windows program you're trying to install, you can safely ignore it.
But you should _definitely not_ run wine as super user! Give us more 
details, but don't try this as root.

Regards,    Nick.

>
> i tried installing winxp from the boot disk onto wine, but it says i
> have to be ab admin, but i am on the root account. does anyone know
> why??
>   
Ok, didn't read this too thoroughly, but are you saying you're trying to
do a full XP installation in wine? I strongly recommend you think that 
over, it's not the way wine is supposed to work. It's for 
running/installing windows _applications_.

Nick.

Hi,

ok, my last two posts were only to stop you from trying what you did 
try. You should start with

http://www.winehq.org/site/about         and
http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

Wine is a compatibility layer between linux and windows applications, 
implementing the windows API. Simply put, wine _is_ your windows 
installation, you cannot install windows on top of it. What your looking 
for is maybe vmware, win4lin or qemu.
Refer to the above links to learn more about wine.

Best regards,    Nick.