[Wine] Windows 98 games can't run off CD

Vincent Povirk madewokherd at gmail.com
Mon May 15 16:22:52 CDT 2006


Make sure the cd drive's type is set to CD-ROM (click "Show Advanced"
in Drives in winecfg). It has a tendency to mistake my cd drives for
hard disk drives.

On 15 May 2006 12:22:02 -0700, link141 <link141 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Greetings.  I am running wine on Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu- same thing)
> Dapper Drake and I'v successfully installed 2 Windows 98 programs.
> They run fine until they give me a message saying that they can't find
> the CD to run off of, and tell me to insert it.  This means I can't run
> the games, because they can only run off the CD.  I've tried detecting
> the CD drive, and it's already detected.  Could someone offer some
> advise.  Thanks.
>
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