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Hi Tim,
First off a cdrom is an iso9660 filesystem and not a fat or vfat fs. So
mount the cdrom with:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
/dev/cdrom can be /dev/hdb or wherever your cdrom is located on your
system.
after the cd is mounted look around the files for where the serial
number might be.
Timothy Peeler wrote:
>
> ...should have a simple answer... How would I go about extracting
> the serial number from an msdos/fat/vfat cdrom? The reason I'm
> asking is that I've been wanting to play my mercenaries under wine
> for the LONGEST time now. And only recently has wine become stable
> enough to even get past the installation. Now when trying to run
> the game it says I need to put the mercenaries cd in. The only
> thing I don't have in my wine.conf file is Serial=xxxxxx. The
> wine documentation is nice about cd-rom information, they even
> give example code to extract the info. Too bad it'll only compile
> on win32 (won't compile with wine includes, no stub or anything
> for GetVolumeInformationA()). I'm pretty sure I've seen a native
> linux program for extracting this info, but for the life of me I've
> not been able to find it anywhere. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Tim
>
> Ps. Code would be wonderful!!!
>
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