[Wine] CDROM detect failed

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 10:48:28 CST 2008


Hi,
   I was trying to install an old Sierra game called Lighthouse. It
used to fail completely under old versions of Wine and I got a request
to try it again. I am doing this on a Gentoo 64-bit machine but Wine
is a 32-bit app on this machine:

mark at lightning ~ $ file /usr/bin/wine
/usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
stripped
mark at lightning ~ $

   Anyway, in a clean account with no .wine directory (I don't run
Wine much...) I mounted the CD and then executed wine
/mnt/cdrom/setup.exe. The setup starts, checks sound and then fails
saying the system has no CDROM.

Questions:

1) Is it even valid to install Wine this way where there isn't an
existing Wine directory before I start the application install or is
preferred that I do some specific set of steps first.

2) How do I correctly show wine where to get the CD so that I can try
to move forward? Is that in winecfg, and if so then does running
winecfg first create everything required to install an app? I'm
running it right now and I see a C: and Z: drive. How do I specify a
CDROM in this? Just link it to /mnt/cdrom?

Thanks,
Mark



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