James Hawkins wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Michael Ost most@museresearch.com wrote:
wine-devel-request@winehq.org wrote:
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:52:00 +0100 From: "Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle@t-systems.com Subject: winecfg volume serial number To: wine-devel@winehq.org Message-ID: 47CC5ABB01651443A88DB8EC5B4D657B01C8FD22@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