A wtf moment that needs to be solved

[rekahsoft]

I am installing Halflife 2, Half life 1 source, counterstrike source and have ran into a really dumb problem. I am using wine version 0.9.28 and installing the games from the Half life 2 Game of the Year Edition. I first installed the tahoma font then installed steam with no problems. After that i started the install of Half life 2 by doing the following:wine msiexec /i /media/cdrom0/hl2.msiThe install has gone fine so far but now i am having a problem...It is asking for the second disk but my cannot remove it using the button on my disk drive and i can't unmount it because it is "in use". What do i do?

[d3v1ant_0n3]

Does steam work the same way on Linux as it does with windows? i.e. you could enter the cd key for HL2, and just download the files. Might take a while tho. Although it will save you the hassle of having to update HL2.

[rekahsoft]

Does steam work the same way on Linux as it does with windows? i.e. you could enter the cd key for HL2, and just download the files. Might take a while tho. Although it will save you the hassle of having to update HL2.

hmmm...i guess i will have to do that :'(:'(:'(

[albeano2004]

Why not just copy each disc to a temporary directory on your hdd, then delete once install has finished (assuming you have enough space)? That's what I have done in the past for other multiple disc games.

[rekahsoft]

Why not just copy each disc to a temporary directory on your hdd, then delete once install has finished (assuming you have enough space)? That's what I have done in the past for other multiple disc games.

I cannot do that because it does not allow me to specify a directory.

[wounded]

Well, I think what was meant by the directory thing was make an ISO file of each disc before hand (It can be done with a single command although I can't recall the exact syntax) and then "sudo mount /path/to/iso1 /media/cdrom0"

Then when it wants disc to

sudo umount /media/cdrom0
sudo mount /path/to/iso2 /media/cdrom0

And the installer will treat it as if it was an actual cd.

As for the disc drive not opening make sure you dont have the folder you are trying to unmount open in nautilus/thunar/konqueror/whatever or the active directory of a terminal thats open or something silly like that. Anything like that will make it not unmount.

[rekahsoft]

Well, I think what was meant by the directory thing was make an ISO file of each disc before hand (It can be done with a single command although I can't recall the exact syntax) and then "sudo mount /path/to/iso1 /media/cdrom0"

Then when it wants disc to

sudo umount /media/cdrom0
sudo mount /path/to/iso2 /media/cdrom0

And the installer will treat it as if it was an actual cd.

As for the disc drive not opening make sure you dont have the folder you are trying to unmount open in nautilus/thunar/konqueror/whatever or the active directory of a terminal thats open or something silly like that. Anything like that will make it not unmount.

smart :) thanks...i have given up and have decided i will not support games that do not support linux. At least for now...i am not much of a gamer anyways

[diepruis]

When something doesn't want to unmount, you can also try

sudo umount /path/to/device_or_directory -l

The -l switch will unmount it regardless of whether it's in use. Don't use this on writeable media though.

[Enverex]

You can also try going back to the terminal you ran Wine from, hitting "ctrl+z" then chdir'ing from the CD to another folder like / then typing "fg" then seeing if it will let you eject.

[shawnrgr]

why not just "wine eject"