http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13273
Pete Lesko leskop@yahoo.com changed:
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--- Comment #6 from Pete Lesko leskop@yahoo.com 2008-09-15 13:28:15 --- I ran across this bug while looking for a solution to get "ReBirth" to run under wine because it looks for the CD as a copy protection mechanism.
winecfg *does* in fact write to the .windows-label file and .windows-serial, but here's the problem.
If you mount an ISO image in a location with a command such as:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /home/me/coolprogram.iso /mnt/coolprog
You cannot change the "label" because the filesystem will be interpreted as a read only cdrom type. If you cannot create .windows-label and/or .windows-serial in that directory, winecfg will not remember the label's serial or label.
The workaround: Instead of mounting an ISO image, extract the files on it into a new directory, and use that instead.
Perhaps winecfg could indicate "I couldn't write to this file space because of a permission problem" or something to that effect?
(In reply to comment #2)
For a "fake" drive Wine tries to read .windows-label and .windows-serial from the root of the drive for label and serial accordingly. And winecfg does not write anything to those files. Nor does Wine.