[email protected] wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:52:00 +0100 From: "Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" > <[email protected]> Subject: winecfg volume serial > number To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: > <47cc5abb01651443a88db8ec5b4d657b01c8f...@s4de8psaank.mitte.t-com.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I just sent a bug-fix to wine-patches to prevent a crash in winecfg > when editing the volume serial number input field, together with some > unrelated thoughts about winecfg and the device/volume serial number > handling. Then I realized that wine-patches is not a good place for > discussion. So here are the ideas about winecfg's GUI:
It doesn't make sense to me to rely on writing to a file to set the windows serial number or label. What about readonly disks? I think those values should be in the registry. Or at least check the registry should be a fallback if .windows-serial or .windows-label does not exist. I am stuck now because an installer program is looking for a CD of a certain label. I can't fudge in the label because it's a CD that I can't write to. Is anyone working on this issue, or agree/disagree? ... mo
