unable to find a volume for file extraction

v1nsai · Post by **v1nsai** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:15 am

I'm trying to install the zune software under wine and I'm getting smacked with the error "unable to find a volume for file extraction, do you have the proper permissions?". I've done some research and found that windows installers won't always install to network drives, so I tried the workaround suggested here but to no avail.

I then found some information here on the way certain windows installers make calls to the disk drives, apparently they don't all use the assigned drive letters, but a schema like harddiskdrive1 etc.

I'm not quite getting how to use this fix though....I tried changing the name of ~/.wine/drive_c to harddiskdrive1 but it had no effect. I looked up the mapping of the drives in wine config but you can't change the location of drive c, it's static and set to .wine/drive_c by default. Can someone explain how to use this fix or any other solutions to this problem?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:47 am

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:15 AM, v1nsai<[email protected]> wrote:

I'm trying to install the zune software under wine and I'm getting smacked with the error "unable to find a volume for file extraction, do you have the proper permissions?". Â I've done some research and found that windows installers won't always install to network drives, so I tried the workaround suggested here (http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... 24682.html) but to no avail.

I then found some information here (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5351) on the way certain windows installers make calls to the disk drives, apparently they don't all use the assigned drive letters, but a schema like harddiskdrive1 etc.

I'm not quite getting how to use this fix though....I tried changing the name of ~/.wine/drive_c to harddiskdrive1 but it had no effect. Â I looked up the mapping of the drives in wine config but you can't change the location of drive c, it's static and set to .wine/drive_c by default. Â Can someone explain how to use this fix or any other solutions to this problem?

That should've been fixed a long time ago..what version of wine? Can
you try in a fresh WINEPREFIX?

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-Austin

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:27 pm

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 07:15, v1nsai<[email protected]> wrote:

I'm not quite getting how to use this fix though....I tried changing the name of ~/.wine/drive_c to harddiskdrive1 but it had no effect. Â I looked up the mapping of the drives in wine config but you can't change the location of drive c, it's static and set to .wine/drive_c by default. Â Can someone explain how to use this fix or any other solutions to this problem?

You might need to change the symlink....

Winetricks have automated the workaround - you can use wintricks volnum....

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

(See Austin's post as well...)

Gert

v1nsai · Post by **v1nsai** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:25 pm

winetricks is awesome, I thought I had already installed it when I downloaded it lol

Anyway, I used the volnum workaround at the push a few buttons (very nice) and installed windows media player 10 also (zune is closely connected to it somehow) but haven't been able to get the 32 or 64 bit versions to install.

I found the zune page in appdb, doesn't look like I'll be getting much further than this. It's a shame, I finally found the mp3 player/music service thats actually worth it and it won't work on linux

Thanks for showing me how to use winetricks though that will be useful in the future