Wine doesn't install programs from multiple floppies

[Bernard Drapeau]

The installation makes reference to Ubuntu 8.04 i386 20080119.

I would like an automatic umount/remount of the floppy drive to install windows programs from
multiple floppies.

I installed Quicken 4 in wine. The installation stopped with the 2nd floppy.
The Quicken installer was looking for the 2nd floppy but got
stuck with the reference from the first one.

To bypass the bug, I launched a terminal,
typed " umount /media/floppy ; mount /media/floppy "
between each floppy exchange and then
press enter in wine to continue the process.

Quicken uses labels on floppies to maintain
the installation order.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

From launchpad: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/184932

I would like an automatic umount/remount of the floppy drive to install windows programs from multiple floppies.

I installed Quicken 4 in wine. The installation stopped with the 2nd floppy. The Quicken installer was looking for the 2nd floppy but got stuck with the reference from the first one.

To bypass the bug, I launched a terminal, typed
" umount /media/floppy ; mount /media/floppy "
between each floppy exchange and then press enter in wine to continue the process.

Quicken uses labels on floppies to maintain the installation order.

[Vitaliy-bugzilla (vitaliy-bugzilla)]

Wine is not what mounts/unmounts media. I don't see why it should be special for floppies?

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I may have misunderstood the reporter. I thought this was a case of a program waiting to detect when a new floppy is inserted and then working automatically when it is; that would imply it's telling the operating system something different from just "read the file on disk". If that were the case then in theory Wine could respect that system call

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Linux doesn't do it automatically so how do you expect Wine to do it automatically?

[Vitaliy-bugzilla (vitaliy-bugzilla)]

In this case the only part Wine might be able to fix is "press enter in wine to continue the process". umount/mount should still be done manually or with automounter.

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro (sidi)]

Hello,

What you could do in order to get your program to install is the following :

- Copy the content of floppy # into a new folder ~/flop#/
- Open winecfg and go to the drives tab
- Create a new drive, type floppy, pointing to ~/flop#/ for each flop folder
you created
- Run your installer and when it asks you the next floppy, change to the
next drive
- Don't forget to remove the drives and folders once done :)

[Juan-lang (juan-lang)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I may have misunderstood the reporter. I thought this was a case of a program
> waiting to detect when a new floppy is inserted and then working automatically
> when it is; that would imply it's telling the operating system something
> different from just "read the file on disk". If that were the case then in
> theory Wine could respect that system call

Windows doesn't have such a notification. See e.g. Raymond Chen:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx

Whether or not you have to umount/mount the floppy is up to the distribution, and unrelated to the whether notification occurs when a floppy change happens.

Even if such a notification existed in the distribution, there's no corresponding notification you could send in Wine that would change the Windows program's behavior, as there's no Windows signal that a floppy change has in fact occurred.

[Dmitry-codeweavers (dmitry-codeweavers)]

Closing.

[Cyprian Guerra (cyprian-guerra)]

I believe this is a duplicate of bug#153169. I know both are closed but just wanted to point that out.