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izomorfix
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Jun 2003
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Location: Romania
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 Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:30 pm Post subject: Virtual drive [beginners] |
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If you are a gamer (e. g. you like GTA: Vice City) you certainly know that some need a CD to play (the Play CD in our case) so:
You have two choices:
1. insert the CD (  )
2. make a virtual drive thus not needing the CD.
Here is how you make it (presuming the cd device is /dev/hdb, you want to keep it's image in /media/myvircd/vice.loop and you mount it at /mnt/cdrom):
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# #Insert the cd so we can make a copy
# dd if=/dev/hdb of=/media/myvircd/vice.loop
# mount -o loop /media/myvircd/vice.loop /mnt/cdrom
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And it's done.
Maybe you want to automount it on startup (not suggested)?
Add this to /etc/fstab:
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/media/myvircd/vice.loop /mnt/cdrom iso9660 loop,auto,user,exec 0 0
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I didn't test the fstab entry  because I wouldn't do it (performance issues)
Please tell me how it goes 
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prolific
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Joined: 19 Apr 2002
Posts: 237
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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You can either do this or get the no-cd patches for games. The loop method woudln't be too good if you have limited harddrive space and lots of games..  |
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xunil
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Joined: 18 Jun 2003
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Location: Blacksburg, VA, USA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| This doesn't work for all games' CDs as some include copy protection mechanisms which read special areas of the CDs in special ways to authenticate them. |
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