[Wine] The Sims 2

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 11:23:41 CST 2009


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:20 AM, rottenpunker
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> The Sims 2 has four installation discs. I read this in the faq:
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>> If program is on multiple CD-ROM disks you don't want to change into cd-rom's directory or you won't be able to remove disk without stoping the installer. First verify that CD-ROM is mapped to a disk drive in winecfg "Drives" tab (ex D: -> /media/cdrom). Then run installer this way:
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>> wine start /unix /media/cdrom/setup.exe
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> So I did it that way, and yet, when it was time to put in disc two, I got an error saying:
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>> An application is preventing the volume 'Sims2_1' from being unmounted.
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> immediately followed by this error message:
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>> DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
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Do you have a terminal opened in that directory?

E.g., did you do:
$ cd /media/cdrom/
$ wine start /unix /media/cdrom/setup.exe

?

-- 
-Austin



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