unable to set drive label

[akosmaroy]

I wonder if someone can help me: I can't seem to be able to set the drive label for a CD image mounted under wine

first, I'm mounting the CD image under Linux using mount -o loop, where it appears under say /mnt/disk

then, using winecfg, I assign a driver letter (say: G:) to /mnt/disk. here in the advanced tab, I also specify the disk label

but, when I start wine explorer, the G: drive doesn't have a label. also, when I go back to winecfg, the label information is lost - it seems this is not saved at all

I tried with with wine 1.2 and 1.3 as well (both on Ubuntu)

[vitamin]

I wonder if someone can help me: I can't seem to be able to set the drive label for a CD image mounted under wine

Correct, you can't. Unless that image already has valid disk label, that Wine will read.

You can't set iso image label with Wine, since it will require you to create a special file. And in most cases you can't write into the image (it's mounted read-only).

[akosmaroy]

I wonder if someone can help me: I can't seem to be able to set the drive label for a CD image mounted under wine

Correct, you can't. Unless that image already has valid disk label, that Wine will read.

You can't set iso image label with Wine, since it will require you to create a special file. And in most cases you can't write into the image (it's mounted read-only).

the iso image itself has a label - and this is what I'd want wine to see. but as wine sees the image only through the Linux filesystem, it doesn't see the label anymore.

is there a way to mount an iso image directly under wine, so that it would see the disk label? or any other way to simulate a CD-ROM with a specific label?

[vitamin]

the iso image itself has a label - and this is what I'd want wine to see. but as wine sees the image only through the Linux filesystem, it doesn't see the label anymore.

It does. Make sure that you properly mapped the drive and that ~/.wine/dosdevices/drive:: (two colons) point to the iso image.
Ex:

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sudo mount ~/archive/disk.iso /mnt/disk -o loop,ro
ln -s /mnt/disk ~/.wine/dosdevices/g:
ln -s ~/archive/disk.iso ~/.wine/dosdevices/g::

[akosmaroy]

the iso image itself has a label - and this is what I'd want wine to see. but as wine sees the image only through the Linux filesystem, it doesn't see the label anymore.

It does. Make sure that you properly mapped the drive and that ~/.wine/dosdevices/drive:: (two colons) point to the iso image.
Ex:

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sudo mount ~/archive/disk.iso /mnt/disk -o loop,ro
ln -s /mnt/disk ~/.wine/dosdevices/g:
ln -s ~/archive/disk.iso ~/.wine/dosdevices/g::

thanks - will give it a shot!