Wine Programs Can't Detect Mounted .iso

[azurepancake]

I've recently downloaded the program 'Rebirth RB-338' which is a synthesizer program normally ran on Windows. I've had the desire to run it with Wine, so I downloaded the .iso file from their website. The .iso is called 'rebirth.iso'.

So I type the following command to mount rebirth.iso to the '/media/rebirth' directory..

sudo mount -o loop ~/rebirth.iso /media/rebirth

The file mounts with no problems to the /media/rebirth directory. Using the CLI I can navigate to it and run the .exe installation file..

wine /media/rebirth/"Install ReBirth RB-338.EXE"

The program installs with no problems to it's default directory. A shortcut is put on my desktop.

Now, with the rebirth.iso file still mounted to /media/rebirth - I click on the icon. The application begins to start and prompts me with the following message..

Please insert the ReBirth RB-338 2.0 CD. Waiting for CD...

Am I doing something wrong here? I opened up winecfg and clicked on the 'Drives' tab and added drive G: as /media/rebirth to see if it worked, but no cigar.

I've tried this with other programs that are supposed to run with a .iso file as well, but they don't work either. If anyone can offer any kind of advice - I will greatly appreciate it.

Thank you.

[cogadh]

I think you need to add the isos mount point as a drive before you install it. Otherwise, just burn it to a CD and run it normally.

[azurepancake]

I think you need to add the isos mount point as a drive before you install it. Otherwise, just burn it to a CD and run it normally.

Just gave that a shot and unfortunately no luck. I'll just burn it onto a CD then, thanks a lot for the advice.

[kahlil88]

Burning the .iso is the easy way (assuming there are no copy-protect issues), but I like to take the more clever approach. I mount my disc images to /mnt/iso, and I added this as a CD-ROM mount point in Wine Config, and I think the problem might be that Wine can't yet autodetect the serial and label. Any ideas?

[viktor4124]

I just posted the following answer to another post. Maybe it'll help you too.
Repost:

Hey,

I had a similar problem recently, which was solved the following way. Let's hope it will work for you too:

Wine manages a directory $HOME/.wine/dosdevices where symbolic links for mapping Windows-drives to locations in your filesystem are held. Just enter the directory in a terminal and examine it yourself (ls -l command).

There are links that have one colon (e.g. E which are refering to the mapping directory in your filesystem, and there drive-letters followed by two colons, which are used to point to a actual physical device (e.g. D: -> /dev/cdrom).
So I not only tried to loop-mount my iso and bind it to drive E:, but also to bind the "physical drive" E:: to the iso itself, so that the windows software may find the cd's serial and stuff. And guess what, it worked at least for me

$ sudo mount -o loop /home/viktor/image.iso /mnt/iso
$ cd $HOME/.wine/dosdevices
$ ln -s /mnt/iso e:
$ ln -s /home/viktor/image.iso e::
$ wine explorer

unfortunately I somehow couldn't start the software with

wine /mnt/iso/setup.exe

I had' to use wine explorer, navigate to drive E: and start setup.exe by double-clicking it.

good luck.

[^rooker]

Thanks viktor!
This solved my problem.

Some thing however keeps puzzling me: On my old system, I didn't have to mount the ISO and it worked properly.
In fact, the "D::" symlink could even point to an invalid drive or not exist at all. Only on my newly installed Ubuntu, I've had to link the ISO.

I think it's also related to wine not storing label/serial information properly (winecfg displays an empty value if you re-open it)

[opensourcefan]

hi viktor4124,
thank you very much for your input. it worked for me too, even on freebsd.
before i've read your posting i was googling for hours and experimenting quite much, but with no success.
after reading your posting it worked immediately!

kind regards,
osf

[jcb081584]

I tried this method and -o is not an option it says. It gives me a long list of options and what they do but -o is not there and I can't think that any of the others would be useful for what I need it to do. Anything else I can try? I've also tried mounting in Gmount-iso and Wine still can't recognize the drive even if I refresh the drive listings in the settings. Thanks in advance.

[indigocat]

Detail:

ln -s ~/...path-to-rebirth*.iso driveletter::

Here's a little tutorial:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/1...beat-machines/

Worked like a charm.

[nc_jed]

detail:

Ln -s ~/...path-to-rebirth*.iso driveletter::

Here's a little tutorial:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/1...beat-machines/

worked like a charm.

+2 !