[Wylug-help] Installing games on wine

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Wed Jul 9 16:55:22 BST 2003


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, 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.

You do indeed, but then you're free to cd out again aren't you?

jh

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