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Hi.

I'm running both Crossover Office 8.0 and Games 8.01 under Ubuntu 9.04 x64. Neither is able to detect the CD drive. Like all new distro's, Ubuntu uses an automounter. So the inserted drive gets mounted under /media/<SOME_CDNAME>. How do I get Crossover to cope with this?

Otherwise I'm stuffed. Even if I get a game to install via running it's setup.exe from /media/<SOME_CDNAME>, the game won't run because it wants the CD in the drive to run and Crossover doesn't think a CD drive is available even though it is mounted.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks.

Just to clarify, it is crossover that complains or doesn't find the installation file on the CD during the installation. It is not only the game that complains? That means it is a real problem of CrossOver not detecting that the CD is mounted at /media/somewhere, and not a problem where a copy protection system doesn't like something.

(I realize that if you install from Z:\media\cdrom the game will not detect the CD properly because Z:\ is not a cdrom drive)

The question is, is it actually mounted? When you insert the CD, can
you open and brwose it's contents? Can you install the game at all?
What title are you trying to install?

Hi.
There were two issues. One is common with the automounters - they don't use the nohide option. So you have to issue a remount with the nohide option. Crossover then sees the CDROM.

The 2nd issue was with copy protection on the game. I found a solution elsewhere...

Thanks for your help!