Wine to External HDD

[next thistle]

I am tryint to install games via PlayOnLinux4 and I would really like for the Virtual Hard Drives to be moved to an External Hard Drive instead of my main, less than 40gb internal hard drive.

[past furnace]

that thing is outdated as hell

[meager agate]

I'm not expert on this but I think you can make a symlink and replace the actual C: folder

[past furnace]

use bottles/lutris instead

[meager agate]

ie - symlink (it's like a shortcut symbol) the old virtual C: folder to the new target device (sdX)

[next thistle]

Lutris or bottles will help me get my stuff on to an external drive?

[past furnace]

bottles allow you to place the wine bottle anywhere

every bottle is a container for windoz apps

[next thistle]

Huh,, Why have I never known about this.

[past furnace]

you never asked

[next thistle]

I tried bottles, and I tried lutris both, and I can't seem to get them to install the game I'm trying to install.

[next thistle]

anytime I try to install this game on external hard drive directly, it fails, when I go through lutris and install it, then move the user/games/ folder to the external and make a symlink, the game stops running.

if I try to install it directly through the symlink, or directly onto the hard drive, it stays like this

[next thistle]

I even tried a flash drive

[meager agate]

I just remembered something

kek

you'll love this

you can try it n see. But you might be able to mount your external USB-run big hard drive AS your games folder on the system drive

it's a matter of setting that drive up in the system's FSTAB file with its very specific UUID, and specify the mount point to be /home/youruser/games/

each time the system boots, if it finds that UUID in play, it will automount it to that part of the file system

[next thistle]

The following file is located on a fuse filesystem.
It might prevent wine from working``` I thin this might be the issue

[meager agate]

and ofc giving that new mount (directory) full read/write access to your user account and owner set to nobody user

[meager agate]

if u cant figure this out, then my solution would be the way

[next thistle]

yeah I think i'll try that next.

[meager agate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeR8Rk5LwWU

def. worth a full watch n take notes

[next thistle]

i got it kind of working, i will try your thing if stuff goes awry

[past furnace]

You have to configure bottles and tell it to use your drive to store the bottles

It has an option where it asks where to place the new bottles

[next thistle]

i tried that a few times lol

[past furnace]

Later I can show you how

[next thistle]

thank you,

[past furnace]

ok got some time

on the settings of bottles, look for that

literally says "bottles directory to hold new bottles"

so bottles will save data there

[next thistle]

Right, then I try to install something in that bottle and it won't install all the way, it asks for stuff.

[burnt verge]

Explain "stuff"

[next thistle]

Let me reinstall bubbles and try again,

[next thistle]

sorry its taking so long.

[burnt verge]

No worries!

[next thistle]

usually sits here for a good long while lol

[burnt verge]

Seems mostly fine to me... 🤔

I guess it is a bit weird that it hangs so long on changing a setting though

does Wine run fine standalone, e.g installed on it's own outside of Bottles? @next thistle

[next thistle]

hmm playonlinux stufff runs fine

[burnt verge]

on a secondary drive, too? or is that screenshot above on the same drive Bottles is installed on?

[next thistle]

external drive, the play on linux stuff I just installed the game on the external using the games installer

but that leaves things split

Its still on Setting Windows version

[next thistle]

i think it's broke somehow, it's still in the same place

[next thistle]

oh it ust now went to the next stage, after only an hour and 45 minutes.

[burnt verge]

...odd

wasn't online for a bit, so I hope you don't mind the late reply

[next thistle]

oh no worries

its on another step again

[burnt verge]

Honestly, although it is being slow, if it at least finishes at some point that's a win 😭

[next thistle]

yea it's only been doing it for 2 hours now..

[next thistle]

it finished, but I can't seem to get it to even run an exectuable

[burnt verge]

Try enabling "run in Terminal" so you can debug what is going on 👍

[next thistle]

it does noting 😄

even stuff that works under other wine.

Im gonna go to ed for now, but i'll check back later

[past furnace]

Wdym

[past furnace]

That's normal.
You can run it from the terminal if you want to see the full log

Like, open terminal then flatpak run <bottles package name goes here>

[next thistle]

Okay, so I booted up this morning, and the bottle I made is gone.

Gonna make a new one.

[past furnace]

if you can vc later I can help

[next thistle]

okay I don't have a microphone or anything

but i can share my screen

this is what the task manager looks like