Propellerhead Reason Install Problem.

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:18 pm

Hi, I am new to the forums, and I love WINE its really awesome!
Well, I am trying to install a program called Reason (3.0.4), It has 3 CDs to fully install it, I install off the first one perfectly, then It asks me for the second Disc, so I take out the first disc then I insert the second but it doesnt do anything. The 3 CDs are not the original retail CDs, They are backups incase I ever lost the originals (Which I did). Do I need to mumble around in the WINE Settings? Is it my CD Drive? Is it the Actual CDs? Help would REALLY be appreciated! Thank you for your time.

EDIT: Btw I am using Ubuntu 8.04, If that helps.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:23 pm

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:18 PM, UbuntuUser49 <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi, I am new to the forums, and I love WINE its really awesome!
Well, I am trying to install a program called Reason (3.0.4), It has 3 CDs to fully install it, I install off the first one perfectly, then It asks me for the second Disc, so I take out the first disc then I insert the second but it doesnt do anything.

How did you take the first disc out? There is a magic incantation you
may need to use to do it properly:
wine eject

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:42 pm

Ok I did that but It gave me this warning:

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preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-00010000

But It did infact eject the disc, I inserted the second disc, but, again nothing.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:06 pm

UbuntuUser49 <[email protected]> wrote:

Ok I did that but It gave me this warning:

preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-00010000

That's probably ok, but see
http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem

But It did infact eject the disc, I inserted the second disc, but, again nothing.

Did the app have a place to click 'ok' when you finished inserting the 2nd disc?

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:24 pm

I checked out that page and now it doesnt give me that warning anymore, so thanks for that.
And no it doesnt have an OK button it only has a Quit button.
Im pretty sure that the program reads the Disc drive for the CD. Not a 100% sure though.
Maybe its something to do with my WINE Configuration?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:26 pm

UbuntuUser49 wrote:Well, I am trying to install a program called Reason (3.0.4)

What exact command have you used? And did you verified that your cdrom is mapped a drive in winecfg?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:27 pm

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:24 PM, UbuntuUser49 <[email protected]> wrote:

I checked out that page and now it doesnt give me that warning anymore, so thanks for that.
And no it doesnt have an OK button it only has a Quit button.
Im pretty sure that the program reads the Disc drive for the CD. Not a 100% sure though.
Maybe its something to do with my WINE Configuration?

Have you tried running setup/autorun/etc. from the second disc after
inserting it?

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Tue May 06, 2008 10:57 pm

vitamin wrote:
UbuntuUser49 wrote:Well, I am trying to install a program called Reason (3.0.4)
What exact command have you used? And did you verified that your cdrom is mapped a drive in winecfg?

Hmm, forgive me, I am a little new to Linux and everything. Can you please explain?

@austin987: There is a file on the CD name "Autorun.inf" I tried to Run it, and Run in Terminal. But nothing happens.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue May 06, 2008 11:02 pm

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:57 PM, UbuntuUser49 <[email protected]> wrote:

vitamin wrote:

UbuntuUser49 wrote:
Well, I am trying to install a program called Reason (3.0.4)

What exact command have you used? And did you verified that your cdrom is mapped a drive in winecfg?
Hmm, forgive me, I am a little new to Linux and everything. Can you please explain?

@austin987: There is a file on the CD name "Autorun.inf" I tried to Run it, and Run in Terminal. But nothing happens.

try running "gedit Autorun.inf" and see what exe it points to, then
try running that exe.

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:07 am

when I do that command In the Terminal but it points me to a blank document. And that cant be right, can It?

EDIT: I Displayed the Autorun.inf from the Second CD and It displayed this:

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[autorun]

icon=Reason30osb.ico

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:31 pm

How did you started the installation ?
Did you double clicked on an exe ? Did the installation started when you inserted the cd-rom ? Did you launched using command line ?

If you used command line, please post the command you used. If not please try it by command line (ask for advice here if you are not sure how to do that) and post the command you used.

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:34 pm

I double clicked an .exe
Can you tell me what command to use to launch from the command line?

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:54 pm

I'll try to make it as simple as possible. If you have any problem, please report back.

The best is to launch it from it's folder (the CD rom)
Open a new terminal and launch :
cd /media/cdrom/

It should go to the good folder if you have only one CD drive.
If the exe you launched is inside a folder and not at the root of the disk, you will need to go inside this folder by typing :
cd name_of_the_folder
(The name should respect Upper and Lower cases)

There type :
ls

It should output a list of the files on the CDrom, check that the exe file is in the list.
Then type :
wine name_of_the_exe.exe
(Replace name_of_the_exe.exe by the actual name of the exe file)

The installer should start.

You may have some problem ejecting the cd by using this command, if it's the case, please try :
cd
wine /media/cdrom/name_of_the_exe.exe

If you have problem with one of the command, give the exact name of the exe and if it is in a specific folder and the messages outputted in the terminal.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:56 pm

UbuntuUser49 wrote:I double clicked an .exe
Can you tell me what command to use to launch from the command line?

What is the name of the exe file you double-clicked on? Did you run winecfg, went to "drives" tab and verified that your cdrom is mapped to a drive letter? If so, what is it?

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:35 pm

@Tlarhices: when I do wine Autorun.exe (Thats the name of the .exe)
it runs and displays this in the terminal:

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fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000400
ice@ice-laptop:/media/cdrom$ fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x130f28 0x33fdf0) stub!
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub

I ejected the first disc but wine/Reason STILL does not recognize the Second Disc.

@vitamin: I doubled clicked on Autorun.exe (On the first CD) and on the winecfg in "Drives" /media/cdrom/ (My CD DRive Im assuming) Is listed as Drive D:

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:48 pm

UbuntuUser49 wrote:@vitamin: I doubled clicked on Autorun.exe (On the first CD) and on the winecfg in "Drives" /media/cdrom/ (My CD DRive Im assuming) Is listed as Drive D:

Then scrap all you did so far.
1. Remove ~/.wine directory.
2. Run winecfg, go to the drives tab, find your cdrom.
3. Run 'winefile' open the "d:" drive (or whichever it is from 2) above)
4. Double click on autorun.exe

When asked for the next disk:
5. Open terminal and run 'wine eject'
6. Insert next disk
7. Continue with installation.

NOTE: When I say "run" that means "K-menu"/"Gnome menu" -> "Run command". Or you can run it from the terminal _FROM YOUR HOME_ directory.

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:52 pm

Well, nothing really strange seems to happen. Sorry, I can't help you further on this problem, maybe a more knowledgeable person can continue to help you.

Just an idea that /might/ work, maybe, can't be sure of anything.
Make a folder on your computer, copy all the content of the first CD inside this folder, then add the content of the second CD in this same folder and do the same with the third one.
Maybe (but it depends on how the installer works) by running the Autorun.exe from this folder it will continue the installation as it will find the needed files, but there are lot of chances that it doesn't work.

UbuntuUser49 · Post by **UbuntuUser49** » Wed May 07, 2008 10:44 pm

Nope still doesnt work

Well, Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciate it!
Maybe its just the discs themselves, maybe they have copyright protection or something.
Meh, Ill ask my cousin for his discs and see if they're any good.
The WINE community is more helpful than I thought

.
Thanks for everything.