wine users - Oct 2003 - Newby: Language CD install cant find drv.

Wine is installed (Mandrake 9.2 rc2 / wine20030911.mdk.rpm). Drives are
configured, seen, and used. Winecheck doesn't complain about anything
important. Notepad works. Zipped win exes unzip perfectly. Progman has trouble
remembering groups and items, though.

I have a couple of old Win language CDs I would like to use again, but my box no
longer has the windy thing.

Can wine run the autorun.inf on it ?

The install.exe program - with or without parameters, as in the autorun.inf -
complains about not finding a thingy.drv, but it is there. Copying it to
C:\windows (and ...system) didn't help. The language program, with
parameters, merely segfaults.

I am aware that this sort of call for help almost never gets any. But, please ?

Thanks.

YY  


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It depend on what old means for you; if they are from before the era of cd copy
protection, I have no idea, otherwise the problem is probably that the cd has
copy protection and wine doesn't support copy protection yet. In this case
the
solution is to look for a crack, it's legal to use a crack to run a legally
licensed program.

>Can wine run the autorun.inf on it ?
I think not yet.
>The install.exe program - with or without parameters, as in the autorun.inf
- complains about not finding a thingy.drv, but it is there. Copying it to
C:\windows (and ...system) didn't help. The language program, with
parameters, merely segfaults.
I don't know if it helps but you can try to change the windows version of
wine, maybe the program will behave differently if it thinks it's on another
windows version.

bye   Fabi