[Bug 14079] Dungeon Siege installation impossible

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14079


Daniel Santos <daniel.santos at pobox.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Daniel Santos <daniel.santos at pobox.com>  2009-08-20 22:10:02 ---
Here's an FYI on a probable work-around (it does not address rendering issues).

Microsoft Setup (as it's been known internally) has long had support for
multi-disk installs where images or files are stored in a network server.  As
such, this even exists for their game products since nobody there has the
brains to disable it for software that they wont be selling site licenses too,
as they do for MS Office, etc.  Thus, you can work-around this problem by
copying the contents of each cd into directories named disk1, disk2, disk3,
etc.  Example:

/home/daniel/CDs/m$/dungeonsiege/disk1
/home/daniel/CDs/m$/dungeonsiege/disk2
/home/daniel/CDs/m$/dungeonsiege/disk3

with each of these directories containing the appropriate contents of those
CDs.  The installer will not ask you for the disks as it will find them on its
own.  This mechanism has existed for at least 15 years that I am aware of. 
Subsequently, the setup program will also record the location of your CD ROM
drive in the following registry entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Dungeon Siege Legends of
Aranna\1.0]
"CDPath"="Z:\\home\\daniel\\CDs\\m$\\dungeonsiege\\disk3"

Note that it has correctly recorded the location of the last disk, the one you
normally need in the CD-ROM drive to play.  You can change this location to
your real CD-ROM drive (or any other location, should you please) by editing
this registry entry.

Please keep this facet of Microsoft Setup in mind for future application issues
as it can be a very handy work-around for a lot of problems.

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