[Wine] cant install or run programs from cd especially Final Fantasy VII (FF7)

[L. Rahyen]

On Monday July 24 2006 17:42, PurpleAbyss at gmail.com wrote:
> ive been using wine for about a month now and ive tried a couple
> different versions but i cant install or run anything on wine from a
> CD..i did a work around for it by just copyin the cd to my hard drive
> and got my game installed, but it comes with 3 play disks and an
> install disk, and when i try to play it even when the correct play disk
> is in and copied everywhere on my hard drive the game still asks for me
> to insert any of the play disks.....if anyone plays that game or knows
> how i can fix this please send me an e-mail.

	First run winecfg, go to "Drives" tab, choose CD/DVD drive from which you 
installed your game, click "Show Advanced" and set "Type" to CD-ROM then 
click Apply or OK. Please note that some games check for its CDs ONLY drive 
from which they were installed (this is actually game's bug not Wine) but 
most games check all your CD-ROM drives (this is correct and fortunatelly 
typical behavior).
	If this doesn't work for you then as Pavel Troller suggested try to install 
nocd crack if available. If this doesn't help either you may try CrossOver or 
even Cedega. Unfortunatelly Cedega is based on very old Wine code so it 
supports much less games than Wine or CrossOver but it include support for 
copy protections that some games uses.