[Wine] Can't install program from CDROM / DVD

[Cosmo Lee]

Martin & James:

Thanks for your responses guys.  Unfortunately, neither solution fixed the problem.  I tried both of them, but still got the identical problem. 

Oddly, when I actually clicked to begin the installation, the DVD drive spun up, but then the pop-up message again indicates "Disk Not Found"....


HOWEVER, I think I may have found the source of the problem.  In checking things out on an actual Win XP box I noticed something VERY odd.  When 
I explored the DVD with XP, the DVD appears to have 8 hidden folders which do not show up in Linux.  Even running `ls -lai` the additional 
directories don't appear.  When I viewed the DVD with the graphical Nautilus file browser the directories were also not revealed, even though I had the 
"Show hidden files" option engaged.  
 

$ ls -lai
total 82390
 834 drwxr-xr-x 12 4294967295 4294967295      924 2009-08-14 06:16 .
9747 drwxr-xr-x  4 root       root           4096 2010-08-12 21:24 ..
 836 drwxr-xr-x  2 4294967295 4294967295      452 2009-08-10 03:55 Installation and Activation Documentation
 837 -rwxr-xr-x  1 4294967295 4294967295     4774 2009-08-13 13:13 Komplete 6 Installation Readme.txt
 838 dr-xr-xr-x  3 4294967295 4294967295      136 2009-08-13 05:17 Komplete 6 Installer Mac.mpkg
 839 -rwxr-xr-x  1 4294967295 4294967295 84350616 2009-08-14 10:35 Komplete 6 Setup PC.exe



Here, under XP I run `dir /a:d` to show all (including hidden) directories:

C:>dir /a:d e:
 Volume in drive E is Komplete 6
 Volume Serial Number is 78E4-8DE7

 Directory of E:\

08/10/2009  03:55 AM              Installation and Activation Documentation

08/13/2009  05:17 AM              Komplete 6 Installer Mac.mpkg
08/14/2009  04:21 AM              Kontakt 4 Library Band Patches.pkg
08/14/2009  04:21 AM              Kontakt 4 Library Choir Patches.pkg
08/14/2009  04:21 AM              Kontakt 4 Library Orchestral Patches.pkg
08/14/2009  04:22 AM              Kontakt 4 Library Synth Patches.pkg
08/14/2009  04:22 AM              Kontakt 4 Library Urban Beats Patches.pkg

08/14/2009  04:22 AM              Kontakt 4 Library Vintage Patches.pkg
08/14/2009  04:22 AM              Kontakt 4 Library World Patches.pkg
08/14/2009  04:32 AM              sub installers
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              10 Dir(s)               0 bytes free



Might this mean that WINE is not showing the files to the installer program?  If Linux can't see the directories, I'm assuming WINE can't see them 
either.  

Any idea what is going on here??  How do I get Linux to see the files so that WINE can show them as well??  Thanks...


-Cosmo



On Thu Aug 12 22:03 , James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> sent:

>Cosmo Lee wrote:
>> I'm having trouble installing a program from the CDROM / DVD drive.  I've checked to see that the mapping of the d: drive is correctly pointing to 
the 
>> right place - it is:
>>
>> ~/.wine/dosdevices$ ls -l
>> total 0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 cosmo cosmo 10 2009-10-04 18:46 c: -> ../drive_c
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 cosmo cosmo 13 2010-08-12 20:19 d: -> /media/cdrom0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 cosmo cosmo  8 2010-07-25 19:12 d:: -> /dev/sr0
>>
>>
>> I run the install program, it runs from the DVD as expected:  
>>
>> ~/.wine/dosdevices$ wine start d:\Komplete\ 6\ Setup\ PC.exe 
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>> However, after answering the setup questions (storage directories, etc - I don't change anything, I just accept the defaults), once it gets to the 
point 
>> of actually installing the software, a pop-up alert says "Disk Not Found", "Please insert Komplete 6".  The disk it is asking for is the same one 
I've 
>> run the installation program from, so I don't understand why it can't see those files.  It's obviously seeing the DVD since it's running the 
>> installation program from it...
>>
>> Any ideas??
>>   
>Think about how you would install this in Windows:
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>D:
>cd "Komplete 6 Setup PC.exe
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>This translates to:
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>[code]
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>cd /media/cdrom0
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>wine "Komplete 6 Setup PC.exe"
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>[/code]
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>Wine will take care of the translation of the cd location for the program.
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>Setup programs MUST be run from the directory from which the 
>installation is to take place.
>
>James McKenzie
>
>> Thanks much for any help...Cosmo 
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