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I have open suse 11.1 running in virtual pc.
How does one get suse to find and read a cdrom.
I need to install software for my router and with wine can install windows drivers.

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By virtual PC, do you mean VirtualBox?
If that is the case, you choose the “Settings” option in VirtualBox for the guest OS and you have the option to specify your CDROM as the guest OS’s CDROM.

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This sounds impossible…

I need to install software for my router and with wine can install windows drivers

I’ve never heard of this…

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Bigjge,

Please stay with your other thread. It is rather clear that you do not need any windows thingy, not even a virtual one. When you have problems with your router go to the other thread you started. Use the browser as advised there. When you get stuck make a copy of that browsr window and show it in the thread, asking what to do now.

There are realy a lot of people using that Fritzbox with all sorts of Linux distros without any problem. Thus do not believe all the crap people from the fritzbox tell you. They know most probably nothing about Linux and often can not even imagine that the Fritzbox is just a router that follows standard protocols that are not invented by MircoSoft, but by the Internet world.

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Wow… I didn’t read that thing about the router!!
Such a misconception exists… I have even seen router boxes saying “Windo$” as a requirement!!!
Recently, I found a Flash driver manufacturer’s web site and they too try to convey the same to their customers! I wrote to them about it but no response from them so far.

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I do like all the answers. One can use a fritzbox with out running a disk but that is not the end of it.
Fritz has a program that allows wlan and a firewall
If the computer cannot commnunicate with box the programs cannot not run.
If someone has a fritzbox fully working with a linux distro
I would like to know how they did that.
The fritzbox program monitors all connection for time and cost and one can control all wlan connections.

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You may have to upload that program file to the router via a browser, not necessarily from Windo$.

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I find all answers rather inept.
I need help from people who know how to implement what I need not rather rubbish comments.
I can now understand why linux will always have problem getting converts.
Suse is a problem when one cannot load a cd as one would normally expect, what is is repositories is not what all require and also not what someone requires other than what the programmers expect one to have.
Have tried 6 differts versions of linux and not one will do what I need and how I require.
Windows will.

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AFAIK virtualpc is microsoft’s virtualization software, not linux. For an OpenSuse VM “see” the emulated CD-ROM it has only to be enabled by the virtualization software. In VMPlayer, for example, it’s device menu shows the emulated CD drives and let you keep them disconnected, connect then to the real drives or to an image. In virtualbox it’s very similar.

If the OpenSuse VM can’t see the emulated drive is because it’s not connected to anything. A read of the virtualpc software manual will probably solve the problem.

In fact the OP question may have been a little inept, as it pertains to what is probably a windows software issue, not linux, and as such should be addressed in a windows forum. No info on the host SO, versions, what he tried to do, etc. So helping amounts to a lot of guessing, something not everyone is willing to do.

Just my 2 cents, no offense intended.