phatgeek wrote: > my problem is that /dev/sr0 (whatever directory it is mounted under) does not get assigned a drive letter at al Looks like you don't have suitable for Wine hal. phatgeek wrote: > l, even though I have a link from d:: -> /dev/sr0. This doesn't change anything. Run Wine with WINEDEBUG=+mountmgr wine notepad and insert and mount a CD/DVD. If you don't see any messages related to finding & mapping CD/DVD then your Wine is not properly compiled or you missing required library.