How to mount Windows partition in Debian Linux ?

[pankajit09]

Hello ,

I want to mount Windows in Debian Linux so that I can use Wine.

Please tell me how to do ?

[pankajit09]

I am able to mount windows in /mnt/win directory but the Wine is not able to autodetect the partition.
I have made an entry in /etc/fstab also.

Please advise.

[cassbiz]

try using VMmanager with wine

http://vmmanager.sourceforge.net/vmm-wine.html

hope this helps, good luck

[pankajit09]

I have configured my Wine but I am not able to open Internet Explorer.

wine C:\\Program Files\\Internet\ Explorer\\iexplore.exe

[cybervegan]

You are probably best off not using wine like this. A virtual machine is probably more like what you need. Wine is intended to provide a complete, stand-alone system for running windows applications on other operating systems (typically Linux, MacOS etc). It uses a set of "fake" disks, which are really just directories off a common root (typically, in your home directory, it will make a folder calle .wine). You can put in links to your "real" windows drives, mounted somewhere in your linux filesystem, inside your .wine directory... browse it and see.

http://www.winehq.org has plenty of help, and the winecfg can be used to interactively set up nearly all the parameters for wine.

hth
-cybervegan

[Motoma]

I have configured my Wine but I am not able to open Internet Explorer.

wine C:\\Program Files\\Internet\ Explorer\\iexplore.exe

When you do this, what errors do you get? Is Internet Explorer just an example or do you really want to use it? In the latter case, have you tried IEs4Linux?

[pankajit09]

When you do this, what errors do you get? Is Internet Explorer just an example or do you really want to use it? In the latter case, have you tried IEs4Linux?

You are right I wanted IE in Linux for testing.

Thanks a lot !!

[pankajit09]

When you do this, what errors do you get? Is Internet Explorer just an example or do you really want to use it? In the latter case, have you tried IEs4Linux?

This is the error which I am getting -->

Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin /mnt/win/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe ...
Warning: Language 'en_IN' was not recognized, defaulting to 'en_US'.
Warning: Language 'en_IN' was not recognized, defaulting to 'en_US'.
Warning: Language 'en_IN' was not recognized, defaulting to 'en_US'.
fixme:shell:StopWatchMode () stub!
fixme:seh:EXC_RtlRaiseException call (from 0x401dd9) to unimplemented function shdocvw.dll.SHRestricted2A
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger ("winedbg 8 100") (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger
Wine exited with a successful status

[pankajit09]

When you do this, what errors do you get? Is Internet Explorer just an example or do you really want to use it? In the latter case, have you tried IEs4Linux?

While installing IE for Linux I got the following error -->

An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

[Motoma]

While installing IE for Linux I got the following error -->

An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

Could you post the full error message?

[pankajit09]

Could you post the full error message?

The full error message is -->

Installing IE 6
Initializing
Creating Wine Prefix
Extracting CAB files
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//ADVAUTH.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//CRLUPD.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//HHUPD.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IEDOM.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_EXTRA.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S1.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S2.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S3.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S4.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S5.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S6.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SCR56EN.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SETUPW95.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//VGX.CAB: no valid cabinets found
An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

[Motoma]

The full error message is -->

Installing IE 6
Initializing
Creating Wine Prefix
Extracting CAB files
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//ADVAUTH.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//CRLUPD.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//HHUPD.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IEDOM.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_EXTRA.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S1.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S2.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S3.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S4.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S5.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S6.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SCR56EN.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SETUPW95.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//VGX.CAB: no valid cabinets found
An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

A simple Google of your error message revealed this solution.

[pankajit09]

A simple Google of your error message revealed this solution.

I had gone to that forum earlier.

Installing IE 6
Initializing
Creating Wine Prefix
Extracting CAB files
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//ADVAUTH.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//CRLUPD.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//HHUPD.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IEDOM.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_EXTRA.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S1.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S2.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S3.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S4.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S5.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//IE_S6.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SCR56EN.CAB: no valid cabinets found
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//SETUPW95.CAB: WARNING; possible 6752 extra bytes at end of file.
/home/pankaj/.ies4linux/downloads/ie6/EN-US//VGX.CAB: no valid cabinets found
An error occured when trying to cabextract some files.

[Motoma]

Did you try the solution on the linked page:

./ie4linux  --wget-flags  --no-proxy
 

[pankajit09]

Did you try the solution on the linked page:

./ie4linux  --wget-flags  --no-proxy
 

Yes I did that.

But the same error came.

[Motoma]

Perhaps, then, you should post to the ies4linux forum :P

[dangerousdan2k]

Perhaps a bit too late as its over a year but still you can try the answer at the bottom of:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/what-the-crap-is-up-with-wine-618487/#post3045186

It worked for me :-)

[pankajit09]

No I am not working in Debian anymore.

Thanks a lot. :-)

[jeasoft]

No I am not working in Debian anymore.

Thanks a lot. :-)

Why?

Do you want to mount a Windows system in a Virtual Machine or mount a partition of Windows?

If you want to mount Windows in a Virtual Machine (VM now), use the Virtual Box application, is good, and it have a kind of shared folder to share the Linux/Windows files.
If you want to mount a a partition of Windows in linux, you have to try the ntfs-3g.