[Wylug-help] Installing games on wine

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 4:14 pm, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:40:25PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> > > Any ideas how I install from the 2nd and third CDs?
> >
> > What about copying the setup.exe elsewhere, cding to /cdrom, running
> > wine /tmp/setup.exe&?  That way the wd would be right, but
> > /cdrom/setup.exe would not be in use, hopefully.
> >
> > jh
>
> Nah, You still have to CD to /cdrom, so it still thinks the disk is
> active and so cannot be politely unmounted.
>
> I have tried forcing an unmount (umount -f) and ejecting the cd the
> crude way with a paperclip, but is still will not correctly read the
> second cd until it has been cleanly umounted and mounted.
>
> More ideas?
>
> Dave

How about 'dd'ing the CD's to your disk, mounting the ISO images on loopback
devices and then adding them to your wine config?

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