WoW install: Disc switching

thom_raindog · Guru Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 400

Howdie,

I know, this one is really basic, but I am clueless as to how to fix it.

I would like to install WoW (again). I have done this probably a dozen times by now, but the last time has been a while.
Now, somehow or the other I have so far always managed to get things set up in a way where I can simply open my CD-tray and put in the next disc when the installer asks for it. On (K)ubuntu just as well as on Gentoo.
But this time I hit a brick wall and can't get it done.

Two things bug me:
When I insert a disc, KDE recognizes it and asks me what to do. When I pick "Open in new Window" it opens a window pointing to "system:/media/hdc", which was originally NOT at all where the CD is supposed to be mounted according to fstab which pointed to /mnt/cdrom1. Consequently the konqueror window tells me it can find nothing at that location, big surprise.
I was able to manually mount the CD manually, set winecfgs drives accordingly, start installing, but could not change the CD.

So I set the mountpoint to the desired /media/hdc and low and behold, konqueror shows the CD contents now. Yeeha..
The installation still is stuck after disc 1. Weirdly enough, that is the case even though the 2nd cd is right in the drive, is mounted to the very same location that disc1 was mounted to, but wine / WOW still can't see it.

Now, what is also buggin me (that's the 2nd thing): When I click on the installer in konqueror it does NOT automatically open it with wine,it asks what program to open it with. THAT was different too, back when things worked...

So, where do I start looking?

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

check winecfg to see where it expects your "D:" drive to be. for me its /mnt/cdrom.

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thom_raindog · Guru Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 400

By now it's /mnt/hdc, which is what I changed it to after the first failed try.
I can use
wine d:\Installer.exe
just fine, so that link works...

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

i'd try turning off all that kde automounting stuff... i don't use any of it and have installed multi-cd games before. that'd be my only guess. :oops:

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thom_raindog · Guru Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 400

I tried NOT using it anyway, and not even that helped any...
As I said, I manually mounted the second CD to where the first one had been, still no luck..

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

strange...

which wine are you using? tried different versions?
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Timbers2k · Apprentice Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 215

If you want to install from the CDs I'd suggest you copy the contents to a directory on your hard drive and install from there. There are problems installing from multiple CDs with wine. However, if you do that you will have a LOT of patches to load to WOW once you have it installed, it will take you much longer to patch than it did to install.

You might want to download a newer version directly form you account page, this will be closer to the current version and require much less patching.

lightvhawk0 · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 388

coolsnowmen · Veteran Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 1479 Location: No.VA

Noone has said this yet,
when I installed a multidisk game with wine, I did something like:

hackerError · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

If you have a decent net connection, Blizzard provides a tool that automatically downloads and installs WoW, BC, and or WOTLK without needing any cds or other media. I use it whenever I have to reinstall.

You can access it by logging in to the account management page of the warcraft website and then clicking the link from there.

Otherwise, you may have to do something like: