[Wine] Re: Mechwarrior 2 under wine

[Joe Baker]

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> [Wine] Mechwarrior 2 under wine
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> "Mark and Janice Juszczec" <juszczec at hotmail.com>
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> Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:14:42 +0000
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> Hi folks
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> I"ve downloaded and installed wine on RedHat 8, kernel 2.4.19 (and 20)
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> The install for Mechwarrior 2 has run without errors.
>
> When I give it:
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> wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Activision/Mech2/MECH2.EXE
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> I get an error window saying:
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> "You must insert the MECHWARRIOR 2 CD into your CD-ROM drive."
>
> Of course, its already there and the drive was mounted with the command
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> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
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> and I've used winecfg to set up wine to think of /mnt/cdrom as d:
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> [markj at localhost markj]$ ls -l .wine/dosdevices/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj          10 Feb 27 16:28 c: -> ../drive_c
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj          11 Mar  3 14:37 d: -> /mnt/cdrom/
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj          11 Feb 27 16:29 h: -> /home/markj
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 markj    markj           1 Feb 27 16:28 z: -> /
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> Has anyone worked with Mechwarrior 2 (Win95 version) and wine?
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> Any ideas what to try next?
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> Mark
Mark,
You might look at the mount options.  There is an option to make hidden
files visible.  Maybe there is one of those invisible files which
MechWarrior is looking for on CD 2.

Good Luck!
-Joe Baker
Burlington, Wisconsin