drive letter problem, pclinuxos

[Doug]

Have just installed Wine, version wine.1.2-0.RC4.1pclos2010.i586,rpm.
Also did the Wine Gecko install, manually, as was suggested by pclos,
in accordance with the Wine Wiki page. All of this seems to work, and
I can get the Notepad to work, and to print, so it sort of looks like
Windows. But it seems to be installed on the E: drive--at least that's
where most everything defaults to. There's a C: and a Z: I can access
from the Wine command prompt.

The File Manager opens in the E: drive, and if there's a way to look
at a different "drive" I can't find it. Disk>Select Drive produces
"not yet implemented."

I can look at C: E: and Z: in the console, pardon me, command prompt.
I can do dir, I can md, on these.

The configurator shows:

A: /mnt/floppy
C: ../drive_c
D: /mnt/cdrom
E: /home/doug
Z: /

I cannot access A: or D:, even when there is software in those
actual drives (i.e., floppy and CD). Trying to access them
from the command prompt says "path not found."

I have printed and read the User Guide and the FAQ and I don't
see anything to help. Without the floppy or the CD, I can't install
anything at all. So now what?

Thanx in advance--

doug
--
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides.
--A.M. Greeley

[dimesio]

I cannot access A: or D:, even when there is software in those
actual drives (i.e., floppy and CD). Trying to access them
from the command prompt says "path not found."

Did you mount the cd or floppy first?

It sounds like you're still thinking of everything in Windows terms and need to familiarize yourself with your new OS.

[Martin Gregorie]

The configurator shows:

A: /mnt/floppy
C: ../drive_c
D: /mnt/cdrom
E: /home/doug
Z: /

I cannot access A: or D:, even when there is software in those
actual drives (i.e., floppy and CD). Trying to access them
from the command prompt says "path not found."

Questions:

1) Are the floppy and CD automounted if you put a disk in the drive?
2) Is the floppy automounted as /mnt/floppy and the CD as /mnt/cdrom?

If either floppy or CD doesn't automount (and I'd be surprised if the
floppy automounts) you'll have to mount the disk before you can read it
and remember to unmount it after use before you remove it from the
drive. In this case, use the mount point that Wine is expecting.

If either CD or floppy automounts to a different place, change the wine
configuration to match the actual mount point. Recent Fedora distros
automount CDs and USB mass storage devices as /media/LABEL where "LABEL"
is the disk's volume name so its likely that pclinuxos does the same, in
which case it may be easier to manually mount the disk so you can
specify the name of the mount point to match the wine configuration.


Martin

[Doug]

On 07/09/2010 06:57 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:

The configurator shows:

A: /mnt/floppy
C: ../drive_c
D: /mnt/cdrom
E: /home/doug
Z: /

I cannot access A: or D:, even when there is software in those
actual drives (i.e., floppy and CD). Trying to access them
from the command prompt says "path not found."

Questions:

1) Are the floppy and CD automounted if you put a disk in the drive?
2) Is the floppy automounted as /mnt/floppy and the CD as /mnt/cdrom?

If either floppy or CD doesn't automount (and I'd be surprised if the
floppy automounts) you'll have to mount the disk before you can read it
and remember to unmount it after use before you remove it from the
drive. In this case, use the mount point that Wine is expecting.

If either CD or floppy automounts to a different place, change the wine
configuration to match the actual mount point. Recent Fedora distros
automount CDs and USB mass storage devices as /media/LABEL where "LABEL"
is the disk's volume name so its likely that pclinuxos does the same, in
which case it may be easier to manually mount the disk so you can
specify the name of the mount point to match the wine configuration.


Martin

Thank you for enlightening me. the problem is, I don't know
how to proceed from here. It would appear that the floppy
automounts, since I have (in pclos) a folder which has the
name of the floppy (ACAD), but not any of the files. The disk
is some kind of FAT fs--it's an old AutoCad LT from 1993--
and I don't know if pclos can read FAT.
Also, I have looked at the fstab, and I don't see any entry for
either the floppy or the cd-rom, but the system seems to
find them. The fstab is in an unfamiliar format: the first
entry reads as follows:

# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=fa0f413c-58ba-447a-913d-833d0ee93c94 / ext4 defaults 1 1

I get the general idea (I don't know how to get back to the original
font, here) but
this does not look like anything I ever saw in an fstab before. There
do not seem to
be enough entries, and at any rate, there are only entries for sda1,
sda6, sda5, where sda6
is /home and sda5 is /swap, and then entries:

none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
tempfsss /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

I don't know what these devices are, and I don't know how to find out. To
get back to the original question, how can I make Wine read the floppy
and the
CD drive, since I don't know what pclos calls them, or where.

I confess to not being very adept at the Linux command line stuff, having
been spoiled by too much graphic desktop in both Windows and Linux.
I am trying to do my homework, but I find myself at an impass.

--doug

Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides.
--A. M. Greeley

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[Martin Gregorie]

Thank you for enlightening me. the problem is, I don't know
how to proceed from here. It would appear that the floppy
automounts, since I have (in pclos) a folder which has the
name of the floppy (ACAD), but not any of the files.

That sounds like a pclos problem, not wine - ask on their forums.

# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=fa0f413c-58ba-447a-913d-833d0ee93c94 / ext4 defaults 1 1

My copy of Fedora does that too - man fstab explains all.

On a modern UDEV-based kernel automounted devices show up in /etc/mtab.
I've checked this with a flash device but can't with a floppy. My only
PC with a floppy drive, which I don't think I've ever used, seems to
have a stuffed floppy drive. It won't automount and won't manually mount
DOS floppy disks, "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt", as either vfat or msdos
filing systems.

I don't know what these devices are, and I don't know how to find out. To
get back to the original question, how can I make Wine read the floppy
and the CD drive, since I don't know what pclos calls them, or where.

Try /dev/fd0 for the floppy - that works for me - at least the drive
switches on and tries to read the floppy even if it can't read it.

Fedora uses /dev/sr0 for the first CD drive, filing system type iso9660
for a CD and mounts it as /media/VOLNAME where VOLNAME is the CD volume
label.


Martin

I confess to not being very adept at the Linux command line stuff, having
been spoiled by too much graphic desktop in both Windows and Linux.
I am trying to do my homework, but I find myself at an impass.

--doug

Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides.
--A. M. Greeley

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