[cw-discuss] installing from a mounted drive

[Francois Gouget]

Paolo Denti wrote:
> Hi,
> i am testing Crossover Mac in order to run a win accounting software. My 
> software requires to be installed from the network:
> 1) mount a remote share as a local drive (let's say X:)
> 2) install executing X:\setupdir\install.exe
> 
> no problem about the first point, just linked the mount to a local drive 
> in the bottle but ... how can i execute the second point ?

In the CrossOver configuration utility, select the right bottle, click 
on 'Install software', and choose 'Install unsupported software'. The 
next dialog will let you browse and select the 'install.exe' file. This 
will give you a Unix path, CrossOver will then manage the conversion to 
a Windows path. Then CrossOver will strongly recommend you to install 
the application in a brand new bottle. But just ignore this 
recommendation and choose your existing bottle. Then it's the same as usual.

Does that help?

Regards,

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Francois Gouget
fgouget at codeweavers.com