wine users - Jun 2009 - unable to find a volume for file extraction

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
(http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2007-March/024682.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.  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?

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:15 AM, v1nsai<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
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?". ?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-users/2007-March/024682.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. ?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?
That should've been fixed a long time ago..what version of wine? Can
you try in a fresh WINEPREFIX?


-- 
-Austin

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 07:15, v1nsai<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
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. ?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?
>
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

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
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13795) 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