[Wine] Strange problem trying to install in Win app under Wine

Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle at gmail.com
Sat Jun 18 13:30:12 CDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:30 -0500, DanKegel wrote:
> If you're going to copy the files from the first cd to
> your hard drive, you probably need to copy them all
> to your hard drive. 
> 
> But why did you copy them at all?  What happens when you
> run the installer straight off the cd?
> 

I assumed I had to change the permissions to allow the file to execute.
I could only do this by copying the files to the hard disk.

> I just now installed some software from cd-rom on ubuntu 11.04.
> I saw that Ubuntu had mounted the cdrom under the name CDROM
> (the disc was imaginatively mastered :-), and 
> I'm used to using the commandline, so I did
>    cd /media/CDROM
>    wine setup.exe
> 
> For a multidisc app, you may need to instead do
>    cd /media
>    wine CDROM/setup.exe    (substitute the right disc name for CDROM)
> otherwise the disc might have trouble ejecting because the mount
> directory is in use.
> 

Tried it, but no luck.  Still not reading the CD in the drive.

> Also, what's that app's home page?

http://gospelink.com/

But the app itself is quite old.

> What does 'wine --version' say?
> 
> 
1.2.2
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for the help.  I do wish I could get this resolved.  Maybe it
won't happen.





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