[Bug 13273] Wine does not remember disk labels set through winecfg

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13273


Pete Lesko <leskop at yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Pete Lesko <leskop at yahoo.com>  2008-09-15 13:28:15 ---
I ran across this bug while looking for a solution to get "ReBirth" to run
under wine because it looks for the CD as a copy protection mechanism.

winecfg *does* in fact write to the .windows-label file and .windows-serial,
but here's the problem.   

If you mount an ISO image in a location with a command such as:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 /home/me/coolprogram.iso /mnt/coolprog

You cannot change the "label" because the filesystem will be interpreted as a
read only cdrom type.   If you cannot create .windows-label and/or
.windows-serial in that directory, winecfg will not remember the label's serial
or label.

The workaround:  Instead of mounting an ISO image, extract the files on it into
a new directory, and use that instead.

Perhaps winecfg could indicate "I couldn't write to this file space because of
a permission problem" or something to that effect?



(In reply to comment #2)
> For a "fake" drive Wine tries to read .windows-label and .windows-serial from
> the root of the drive for label and serial accordingly. And winecfg does not
> write anything to those files. Nor does Wine.
> 


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