[Wine]Softlinking to a dvd-drive with inconsistent mount points?

[Hiji]

--- Holly Bostick <motub at planet.nl> wrote:

> Hiji schreef:
> > In Suse 9.2, it was easy to softlink to a drive
> from
> > /home/username/.wine/dosdevices because the mount
> > point for the drive was always the same.  That is,
> > /media/dvdrecorder was always where the disc would
> get
> > mounted.
> > 
> > NOW, with Suse 9.3, the mount point is
> > /media/DISC_NAME.  Since each disk has a different
> > name, there is never a consistent mount point. 
> So, I
> > can't make Wine's "d:" drive the dvd-drive because
> the
> > mount point name always changes.
> > 
> > Does anybody know how to get around this or have
> any
> > advice?  Is there something I have to do with
> FSTAB?
> > 
> > Hiji
> > 
> > 
> > 		
> Link the drive directly to the device, perhaps?
> 
> Rather than linking to /media/whatever, you could
> link directly to
> /dev/hdc (or whatever it the real device may be).
> 
> Alternatively, you could change/override the udev
> rules to provide
> consistent behaviour rather than this variable
> behaviour. I can't tell
> you how to do that exactly, as I don't need custom
> udev rules (and don't
> use my install of SuSE enought to note how it
> behaves differently than
> my main install of Gentoo), but udev is designed to
> allow custom rules,
> so you should be able to do it. I'd check the SuSE
> sites or forums for
> tips or documentation.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Holly

Hi Holly,

Any advice is GOOD advice.  :)  I'll take anything
right now, and I think you may provided some clues
with mounting directly to the /dev/hdx point.  I'll
give that a shot, and give UDEV some research.

In the meantime, if anybody else has any tips, please
chime in.

Thanks!
Hiji



		
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