James Hawkins wrote: > 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.
Yes, you are right. And this does work. In my system I am mounting a remote CD over samba and creating a drive letter for it in Wine. That's the disc that the installer wants to query. I was hoping to be able to set the label for the "network" drive to work around this issue. But the CD is read only so I can't write the file. So I am trying to do something tricky, that is probably not even possible in Windows. And I'll probably just have to my own internal Wine hack to get this to work. - mo
