Win4Lin accesses the CD-ROM drive via the Unix device for it.
This is specified in /etc/default/merge with
MERGE_CD_DEV_NAME
This is usually about on the third line.
The default for this is set up when you install Win4Lin is:
/dev/cdrom
The loading of the Windows CD uses this setting to read in
the Windows installation files from the CD. So if it got
that far, at least the device name is correct.
You have to make sure that the permissions on the device
allow normal user to access the device.
-David
Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> okay, i give up. i uninstalled win4lin. i purged every trace of it
> i could find, including /opt/win4lin, /var/win4lin and /etc/default/merge.
> i did a reinstall of win4lin. i then did a windows CD install. i then
> did a minimal win98 install under my non-root account. and i still can't
> access the cdrom. i also got rid of any trace of supermount on my
> mandrake 7.2 system, just in case that was involved. after i did all of
> the above, i was poking through /etc/default/merge, looking for references
> to cdrom, and found this:
>
> MERGE_CDROM_START=N
>
> but i'm not sure that's the culprit, since changing the N to a Y and
> relaunching fwin didn't make any difference. and yes, i RTFM'ed anything
> i could find in the Support section on the website.
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