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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> First off a cdrom is an iso9660 filesystem and not a fat or vfat fs. So
> mount the cdrom with:
Doh!, I should know that! *sigh*
>
> 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.
>
Nod, I've been doin' that for the past few days. I've been looking
through individual files and grepping everything in sight. I've
even looked through the raw data at the head and tail of /dev/hdc.
Any other ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Tim
> 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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