[Bug 9569] automatically set up dosdevices on first run

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9569





--- Comment #5 from Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com>  2007-09-02 22:45:55 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> > well, i would expect there to be a unique drive letter for each separate disk
> > partition mounted on the system.  for example my /home is a separate partition
> > than /, and i have a second hard disk as well.   i also have two dvd drives.  
>
> You not on windows, that would be major hindrance for any Linux user so that
> part would be [WONTFIX]

the problem is that windows applications on wine don't see the correct free
space unless a dosdevice is set up specifically for that partition.

> > would expect each of them to get a different drive letter assigned
> > automatically without my intervention.
> 
> Works perfectly here. What distro? How did you installed Wine?

installed on debian using the deb here
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html.  wine did automatically set
up dosdevices for c:=/home/user/.wine and z:=/, but did not set up dosdevices
for the dvd drives.


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