Thanks Paul,<br><br>I believe the cd was working on that laptop under Windows 98 which was installed before, though I could be wrong.<br>As I said, Nistur and I will have time to take a closer look later this evening, so we'll try making a copy of the cd as you suggested and see if we have any more luck.
<br><br>DreamIsDead<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Lancaster</b> <<a href="mailto:paul_lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk">paul_lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">DreamIsDead wrote:<br>><br>> Our only problem now is that his mum had a cd with games on it which
<br>> we were hoping we could get working under Wine, however the cd isn't<br>> even being recognised when it is inserted (whilst other cds are).<br>> We'll have more time to look into that later tonight, and if not find
<br>> some alternative Edutainment software she might like.<br>><br>Try reading the cd on another pc, if if readable copy on to another<br>disk. the cdrom might not like type / make of cd, or the cd might not<br>have been finalised. Cdroms of that era often didnt like writable media,
<br>or couldnt read open / multisession disks.<br><br>Paul<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk
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