wine users - Mar 2004 - Installing Windows apps from cd's

When installing a Windows application onto a Linux box (not dual-boot), 
how do I switch cd's (when there are more than one with the install)? 
Linux won't let me eject the first cd because it is in use.  This may be 
a Linux question more than a Wine question, but I'm still a novice so 
I'm not sure.  I'm running Ark Linux 1.0 alpha 10.1, trying to install 
Britannica 2002.

BTW, I am very impressed with the improvements in Wine in the past year. 
  I started using Linux last year, and found that Wine ran virtually 
nothing for me.  I started trying again recently, and it is much more 
successful.

Sincerely,
Derek

Run the installer from a different directory. For example, do
cd /
wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe
then you can change the cds during setup. If you're using supermount, you
don't
need to do anything, just swap cds.
If you're using manual mount/umount, you can umont the cd drive and then
mount
the second disk.

Ivan.

Derek Croxton wrote:
> When installing a Windows application onto a Linux box (not dual-boot),
> how do I switch cd's (when there are more than one with the install)?
> Linux won't let me eject the first cd because it is in use.  This may
be
> a Linux question more than a Wine question, but I'm still a novice so
> I'm not sure.  I'm running Ark Linux 1.0 alpha 10.1, trying to
install
> Britannica 2002.
AFAIK you can install Britannica from any directory under Windows, so just
copy the primary CD to the harddisk and point it to the real second one
when it asks for it. And since you are running it under Wine you can point
the "cd-rom drive" to any directory and do some mv operations to put
the
'other disk' there.
> BTW, I am very impressed with the improvements in Wine in the past year.
>   I started using Linux last year, and found that Wine ran virtually
> nothing for me.  I started trying again recently, and it is much more
> successful.
Yes, I've been "flabbergasted" too lately. Several non-working
programs now
run out of the box.

        Henk Poley <><

> Thanks!  The install worked fine (although Britannica did not run :( ).
Happy debugging :)
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/bugs

Ivan.