wisotool is a handy winetricks-like script for automatically installing games from .iso or .mds files copied from your own dvds
I wanted to try it, but i wasn't successful probably because of my faults.
So i prepared Bioshock .mds image, which i held on different HDD because of install speed, drive space etc. It works, if i manually mount it into virtual DVD drive (by cdemu) and then manually install by wine setup.exe etc...
Can i instruct wisotool to read the image from my folder? Now i get:
Executing wine vcredist_x86.exe /q 2690 cdemud is already running /mnt/isos/game_isos/bioshock/bioshock_my-private-game-key-here.mds is mounted in cdemu, forcing an eject eject: unable to find or open device for: `/media/BIOSHOCK' ERROR: Failed to load image: Image file cannot be opened or read. Mounting as drive i: ln: creating symbolic link `/home/user/.wine/dosdevices/i:' -> `': No such file or directory Setting DPM emulation flag of device 0 to 1. Setting transfer rate emulation flag of device 0 to 0. cat: /home/user/.wisotool/cache/bioshock/391042ea19b4e_some_hash.txt: No such file or directory
BTW: looks like you are setting things like DPM (Data Position Measurement) explicitly? I have around 150 games transferred to .mds images and i've never need to do that. Just as a user: $ cdemu load 0 bioshock_my-private-game-key-here.mds
Also how do you handle multi CD games whit this tool? I have 8 virtual drives and for example NFS Underground has two CD, so i mount both of them and let the installations begin. The advantage is, that the games do not asks "please put 2nd CD" etc.