Added a configuration hint for the CD-ROM "unhide" option.

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Andreas Mohr 2000-05-05 18:15:34 +00:00 committed by Alexandre Julliard
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@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ overview over the rationales I thought up and how I tried to implement it.
(While the examples use "rpm" most of this stuff can be applied to other
packagers too.)
NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD RECHECK THIS FILE EVERY TWO MONTHS OR SO
(diff -uN comes to my mind here...).
We'll be adding stuff constantly here in order to improve the Wine
environment !
1. Rationales
A WINE install should:
@ -28,6 +33,7 @@ g. The .exe and .dll from a global read-only Windows installation to be
found by applications.
h. Some special .dll and .exe files in the windows\system directory, since
applications directly check for their presence.
i. Some special program environment.
2. Implementation
@ -145,6 +151,16 @@ Install the package using the usual packager "rpm -i wine.rpm".
You may edit /etc/wine/wine.conf, [Drive W], to point to a possible windows
installation right after the install. Thats it.
Note that on Linux you should somehow try to add the "unhide" mount option
(-> "man mount") to the CD-ROM entry in /etc/fstab during package install,
as several stupid Windows programs mark some setup (!) files
as hidden (ISO9660) on CD-ROMs, which will greatly confuse users
as they won't find their setup files on the CD-ROMs as they were
used on Windows systems when "unhide" is not set ;-\
And of course the setup program will complain that "setup.ins" or some other
mess is missing...
If you choose to do so, then please make this change verbose to the admin.
2.4 Installing WINE for the user
The user will need to run a setup script before the first invocation of