[Wine] Re: Trying to get a cdwriter to write to loop device

[Daniel Skorka]

nate <nrs27 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> After I made this file, I turned it to an iso with vfat filesystem to 
> see if cdburn would write to a mounted iso file.

Umm, ISO9660 is a filesystem. VFAT is a filesystem. ISO9660 is used on
CD-ROMs.

> [nate at blackbox ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/PowerISO]$ sudo wine 
> C:\\Program\ Files\\PowerISO\\cdburn.exe Z:\\home\\nate\\temp.iso 
> Z:\\media\\usb1\\usarmy.daa
> Error 2 opening device \\.\Z:\home\nate\temp.iso
> 
> What does \\.\ mean? Is it actually pointing to somewhere meaningful?

In this case, I assume it is some windows-specific way of identifying a
device.
I guess cdburn really wants to write to a CD writer, so you are out of
luck with this one.

Daniel