wine users - Mar 2007 - cant install or run programs from cd especially Final Fantasy VII (FF7)

> ive been using wine for about a month now and ive tried a couple
> different versions but i cant install or run anything on wine from a
> CD..i did a work around for it by just copyin the cd to my hard drive
> and got my game installed, but it comes with 3 play disks and an
> install disk, and when i try to play it even when the correct play disk
> is in and copied everywhere on my hard drive the game still asks for me
> to insert any of the play disks.....if anyone plays that game or knows
> how i can fix this please send me an e-mail.
> 
These protection schemes requiring to have the CD inserted are not properly
supported in wine yet (mostly). Even if you are a legal owner of the game
CDs, try to install a "nocd crack", if available. I hope the game will
play
in wine then.
          With regards, Pavel Troller

On Monday July 24 2006 17:42, PurpleAbyss@gmail.com
wrote:
> ive been using wine for about a month now and ive tried a couple
> different versions but i cant install or run anything on wine from a
> CD..i did a work around for it by just copyin the cd to my hard drive
> and got my game installed, but it comes with 3 play disks and an
> install disk, and when i try to play it even when the correct play disk
> is in and copied everywhere on my hard drive the game still asks for me
> to insert any of the play disks.....if anyone plays that game or knows
> how i can fix this please send me an e-mail.
	First run winecfg, go to "Drives" tab, choose CD/DVD drive from which
you
installed your game, click "Show Advanced" and set "Type" to
CD-ROM then
click Apply or OK. Please note that some games check for its CDs ONLY drive 
from which they were installed (this is actually game's bug not Wine) but 
most games check all your CD-ROM drives (this is correct and fortunatelly 
typical behavior).
	If this doesn't work for you then as Pavel Troller suggested try to install
nocd crack if available. If this doesn't help either you may try CrossOver
or
even Cedega. Unfortunatelly Cedega is based on very old Wine code so it 
supports much less games than Wine or CrossOver but it include support for 
copy protections that some games uses.

ive been using wine for about a month now and ive tried a couple
different versions but i cant install or run anything on wine from a
CD..i did a work around for it by just copyin the cd to my hard drive
and got my game installed, but it comes with 3 play disks and an
install disk, and when i try to play it even when the correct play disk
is in and copied everywhere on my hard drive the game still asks for me
to insert any of the play disks.....if anyone plays that game or knows
how i can fix this please send me an e-mail.