On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Michael Ost <[email protected]> wrote: > [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 >
The label of the CD is read from the disk. If you're using a mounted ISO, you have to fix the access rights of the loopback file representing the ISO file. -- James Hawkins
