Outlive will install fine with Wine BUT now asks I insert CD

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fusion809
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Outlive will install fine with Wine BUT now asks I insert CD

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Hi,

Wine has been able to install Outlive for me just fine. The problem is that after when I run Outlive I go to "Single Player" and it asks me to insert a CD drive which is already inserted. I have run:

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ln -s /mnt/cdrom ~/.wine/dosdevices/d:
where I manually mounted /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom before running this line. Is there something I'm missing here that I should be doing?

Thanks for your time,
Brenton
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Re: Outlive will install fine with Wine BUT now asks I inser

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You are missing the symlink to the device, ~/.wine/dosdevices/d::. But why are you creating these manually? Running winecfg with the cd mounted and clicking Autodetect should work.
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Re: Outlive will install fine with Wine BUT now asks I inser

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I did the symlink manually because of this in the Wine docs https://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-gui ... ain#AEN605. But I will be willing to give your way a go.
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Re: Outlive will install fine with Wine BUT now asks I inser

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The reason I created the symlink manually was the Wine docs seemed to indicate to https://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-gui ... ain#AEN605. I used winecfg and it's made no difference... Still asking me for the disk.
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Re: Outlive will install fine with Wine BUT now asks I inser

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The most common reason for that problem is copy protection. Some games will not work in Wine without a no-cd patch. That's something you would have to find and apply on your own; helping you with that is against forum rules.

You didn't mention what Wine version you're using. If it's not the latest development release, try upgrading before you try anything else.
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