[Wine] Access to CD ROM drive when running program in Wine

Andy Allen andy.allen at virgin.net
Sun Jan 1 13:19:33 CST 2006


Hi Stefan,
I'll try that, thanks.

Andy

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 13:23, Stefan Leichter wrote:
> Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2005 20:56 schrieb Andy Allen:
> > I'm running a (language-learning) program in Wine which requires access
> > to the CD ROM drive, but it appears that it can't find it! How do I tell
> > it how to access the CD ROM drive?
> >
> > Andy
> 
> Hello Andy,
> 
> you need to create a link in the ~/.wine/dosdevices directory to the directory 
> where you mount the CDROM in, e.g.
> 
> sle at sle3:~> ls -l .wine/dosdevices/
> [snip]
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 sle      users          12 2005-11-26 18:36 r: -> /media/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 sle      users          17 2005-11-26 18:36 w: -> /media/dvd
> 
> Bye Stefan




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