Mounting cdroms for use by service packs

Sometimes an application will request that you insert a
CDROM back into the drive in order to proceed. Notably,
this happens when installing Office 2003 service packs.

And yet, when you do, the application acts as though it's not there.

What's going on is that Windows applications insist on CD's
having a drive letter, so CrossOver dynamically assigns
a drive letter to any CD that is inserted.

Often, that comes up as drive 'X:'. The problem is that if
that dyanmic assignment isn't made exactly the same
the next time around, then the Windows application won't
find the CD (if we've mapped it to W:, then the application
will complain).

There are several strategies to cope with this. The easiest method
is just to apply service packs and install all Office 2003 extras
during the initial installation phase; that way, the CD is sure
to be mapped to the same drive letter.

An alternate, more technical approach, is to recreate the X: drive.

To do this, you would open a command line window (or Terminal on the Mac),
and for Linux
   cd ~/.cxoffice/your-bottle-name/dosdevices
and for Mac:
   cd ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/your-bottle-name/dosdevices
and then for either:
   ln -s whereever-the-heck-your-cd-really-is x: