3a. Copying Diablo II from a Windows PC
This is the easiest and the recommended way. All you need is Diablo II (full installation) installed on a Windows PC. If your Diablo II installation is not installed as "full installation", upgrade it.
Copy all files from the Diablo II folder on your Windows PC to an USB flash drive or to any other external drive. You do not need to copy any parts of the Windows registry. Registry entries will be created when you start Diablo II.
Insert the drive at your Linux PC. If it does not get recognised automatically, you may need to mount it (will happen if you are using a NTFS formatted drive).
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Replace "ntfs" with the file system on your external drive. For some file systems, you will need to add "-o loop". Replace "X" with your hard drive letter. Maybe you have to find out which letter the drive is assigned to.
Please make sure that you use an empty folder as mount point! If /mnt is already taken by some other device, you have to select or create another one. The content of a folder will be lost if you use it as a mount point, so make sure that your folder is empty!
This will list all partitions installed on the computer, including external drives. Usually /dev/sda is your 1st hard disk drive, /dev/sdb is your second, ... The numbers indicate the partitions.
The last listed drive will be your external drive in most cases.
After mounting the external drive, simply copy the Diablo II folder (which can be found in /mnt after mounting) to your Linux PC.
Make sure that you have read & write permissions in the Diablo II folder. Do not copy them being root. Maybe you have to change the permissions in your target folder before copying. This could require administrative permissions. If you don't know how to change permissions, simply copy the files into a new folder in your home directory (example: /home/username/Diablo_II).
Right-click on your desktop and create a new launcher.
Select "Application" as type and a name of your choice.
For "Command", type in the following command:
To run Diablo II on Linux with wine, use the following command:
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wine "[path to your Diablo II Files]/game.exe"
Example:
wine "/home/user/Diablo II/game.exe"