How do I get WINE to see a mounted disc image as a CD?

[Elliander]

I prefer to run games that require CDs from image files, since it is faster and protects the life of my CDs. In windows, I would just mount the disc image and I could then play. But using Wine and Ubuntu, it appears to work differently.

When installing a Windows CD using WINE under Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, how should I go about mounting a disc image so it is seen by games running under WINE as a CD?

Right now I am using ACETONEISO2 to mount the disc image. It was able to install from ISO just fine. But it doesn't see the mounted disc image as a CD.

[dimesio]

I prefer to run games that require CDs from image files, since it is faster and protects the life of my CDs. In windows, I would just mount the disc image and I could then play. But using Wine and Ubuntu, it appears to work differently.

When installing a Windows CD using WINE under Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, how should I go about mounting a disc image so it is seen by games running under WINE as a CD?

Right now I am using ACETONEISO2 to mount the disc image. It was able to install from ISO just fine. But it doesn't see the mounted disc image as a CD.

Map the mounted iso as a cd drive in winecfg. It's on the drives tab; you have to click the "Show Advanced" button.

[Gert van den Berg]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Elliander <[email protected]> wrote:

I prefer to run games that require CDs from image files, since it is faster and protects the life of my CDs. In windows, I would just mount the disc image and I could then play. But using Wine and Ubuntu, it appears to work differently.

When installing a Windows CD using WINE under Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, how should I go about mounting a disc image so it is seen by games running under WINE as a CD?

Try CDemu? http://cdemu.org/ It actuially creates a virtual CD device
under /dev which is usaful for things such that expect an actual
drive...

(I'm not sure if AcetoneISO actually emulates a drive, or if it just
does a mount -o loop...)

Gert