At 00:23 01/07/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>On Saturday 30 June 2001 19:04, you wrote:
> > I have a file that contains the image of CD rom (as you get it by
> > copying the image from, say, /dev/cdrom using dd). Under Linux I can
> > mount the file so it appears as a CD rom using
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 file /mnt/cd-image
> >
> > where file is the name of the file and /mnt/cd-image is the mount
> > point.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a similar way to make the file appear as a CD
> > drive to Windows run under win4lin?
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > PS. To answer questions on why I am interested in this: I have
> > brought a Windows program which is copy protected by requiring that
> > the CD is in the drive while running the program. I would therefore
> > like to copy the whole CD on to the hard disk to avoid having to fetch
> > the CD every time.
>
>This is really easy:
>
> - run winsetup as user
> - select "Personal session configuration: win"
> - and under "Drives & Filesystem" click on "Add" then "CD-ROM"
> - and under devices on "Other".
> - Enter the full path to your image here and everything is done.
>Win4lin automaticly detects that it is an image and mounts it correctly.
But how about doing this on the W4L disk itself - I usually install from a
network drive and don't have Cd drive in the local PC. .
Thanks,
Phil.
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