wine users - Feb 2008 - Drive not found-problem when running programs in Wine

My wife has a Asus Eee (running the original Xandros Linux), on which she wants
to run the Rosetta Stone language self-learning software. Naturally, we have it
in a Windows-version, so I installed Wine, copied the files on the CD-ROM to a
USB memory stick, ran the installer under Wine, and everything worked, to my
surprise, without more than a few glitches and re-tries.

So the program itself runs, however, it does not recognise the files on the
memory stick as a CD-ROM. That is to be expected, I guess, but I then created a
new folder, "drive_d" at /home/usr/.wine/drive_d, copied the full
content of the memory stick to there, and told winecfg to find a new CD-ROM
drive located there. However, the Rosetta software still starts nicely but does
not find the data that it is supposed to read from the "CD-ROM".

When I wine autorun.exe on drive_d, the install-or-run-program starts up, it
even makes the right sounds. At that point the terminal shows

fixme:process:SetProcessWorkingSetSize (0xffffffff,-1,-1): stub - harmless

after clicking on Run Rosetta Stone it adds

fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx :stub
Wine exited with a successful status

Please help?

BioDynamo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> My wife has a Asus Eee (running the original Xandros Linux),
> on which she wants to run the Rosetta Stone
> ... so I installed Wine, copied the files on
> the CD-ROM to a USB memory stick, ran the installer under
> Wine, and everything worked...
>
>  So the program itself runs, however, it does not recognise
> the files on the memory stick as a CD-ROM.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7544
has some tips you might try.  Did you check there?
Also, what version is your Rosetta Stone?

I think your best bet is simulate the cd-rom better, i.e.
copy the iso image (not the files) to the memory
stick, then do a loopback readonly mount of the image onto /media/cdrom.
e.g. mount -o ro,loop /media/usbkey/foo.iso /media/cdrom
(You probably want to write a little shell script to do this.)

And then make sure Wine notices the new 'drive', and install from there.

Let me know if I'm talking too fast :-)

I would try making an iso of the cdrom, and adding it in fstab and then tell
wine thats a cdrom drive... But I don't know if thats going to solve your
problem, just a idea...

Cheers
- Mixi

DOA(dead on arrival) in a lot of case with that method mixi.

Copy protection stuff and stuff that needs cd audio demands http://cdemu.sf.net
to emulate the disk correctly.  Follow instructions there.