Hey, I’m extremely new to Linux (~2 weeks) and I just tried to install Diablo II using WIne.
i used the terminal command: ‘wine /media/INSTALL/install.exe’ and I got “Please insert the CD labelled ‘install Disc’” (even though the install disc was in the drive. I even tried the other discs. I tried searching another thread on another forum where a Fedora user had the same problem, which was solved, but it doesn’t work for me for some reason.
Any help at all would be appreciated. Thankyou (:
Have you tried
Browsing to the installer(.exe) file on the cd/dvd and clicking on it? Should just open in wine or ask if you want to run using wine, if it doesn’t try right-clicking on it and click ‘Open With’ then type ‘wine’ in the box that opens up
Or
Don’t know whether wine has difficulties with paths to files on CD/DVD disks but copying the files off the disk to a folder somewhere in your /home and then running the install(.exe) file from there in wine might work better
I’ve not installed anything in wine off CD/DVD myself so those are just thoughts on what might work, and I’ve just had another thought
With the diablo disk in the drive, if you run ‘winecfg’ and click on the Drives tab, does the CD/DVD drive appear there? If not adding it might help, browse to the drive, Add a new drive, choose a drive letter for it, then with the new drive selected, click Browse then browse to the CD/DVD drive (or manually enter it’s path), click OK. Once you do that you should be able to access the drive in wine by it’s letter, like wine e:\install.exe
One of those should get the installation started, more likely to be the second or third way at a guess
Best of luck
Try Playonlinux, which can be installed from the Packman repository. This is Wine, but it seeks to make a few things easier.
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