[Wine] Re: How do I get WINE to see a mounted disc image as a CD?

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Elliander wrote:
> I prefer to run games that require CDs from image files, since it is faster and protects the life of my CDs. In windows, I would just mount the disc image and I could then play. But using Wine and Ubuntu, it appears to work differently.
> 
> When installing a Windows CD using WINE under Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, how should I go about mounting a disc image so it is seen by games running under WINE as a CD?
> 
> Right now I am using ACETONEISO2 to mount the disc image. It was able to install from ISO just fine. But it doesn't see the mounted disc image as a CD.


Map the mounted iso as a cd drive in winecfg. It's on the drives tab; you have to click the "Show Advanced" button.