On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 10:30 -0500, DanKegel wrote: > If you're going to copy the files from the first cd to > your hard drive, you probably need to copy them all > to your hard drive. > > But why did you copy them at all? What happens when you > run the installer straight off the cd? > I assumed I had to change the permissions to allow the file to execute. I could only do this by copying the files to the hard disk. > I just now installed some software from cd-rom on ubuntu 11.04. > I saw that Ubuntu had mounted the cdrom under the name CDROM > (the disc was imaginatively mastered :-), and > I'm used to using the commandline, so I did > cd /media/CDROM > wine setup.exe > > For a multidisc app, you may need to instead do > cd /media > wine CDROM/setup.exe (substitute the right disc name for CDROM) > otherwise the disc might have trouble ejecting because the mount > directory is in use. > Tried it, but no luck. Still not reading the CD in the drive. > Also, what's that app's home page? http://gospelink.com/ But the app itself is quite old. > What does 'wine --version' say? > > 1.2.2 > > > Thanks for the help. I do wish I could get this resolved. Maybe it won't happen.
