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Old 04-02-2024, 08:28 PM   #1
rup1034
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Question CDEmu specify mount folder?


I have just installed a nifty program CDEmu but after a bunch of tinkering and finally getting it working it seems like every time I mount a disk iso it creates a /home/user/run/NAME_OF_CDROM, which does not work well for games which have multiple cdroms or programs that rely on the same working directory when inserting a new disk.

Is there a way to force this program to always use the same mount point no matter what the name of the cdrom is? I mean there is only 1 emulated device setup on my system I do not see why it needs to make a new folder name for every mount. Such as always being /home/user/run/CDROM vs being INSTALL,PLAY,EXPANSION etc.

I thought about just mounting all 3 cdroms and the expansion pack and change my symlink every time it asks for a disk. I assume there has to be some configuration someplace so that user mounted file systems mount where I expect them to be.

I also have a problem where if I unmount a disk sometimes mounting a new iso picks the folder name of the previous disk and no files show up at all no matter what I do or how many times I unmount/remount.

This also happens with hard disk drives when I put in a external usb and it makes a user mount folder, then sometimes removing the usb drive and inserting a different usb drive will mount and have a empty folder with the name of the previous hard disk I had plugged in. Sometimes this fixes by unplugging closing every dolphin window then plugging a drive back in but is random when it occurs. I also did click eject to remove properly.

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Old 04-03-2024, 12:34 PM   #2
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I used a hackey way to get my game installed, by lazy unmounting the next cdrom and when getting back to the install disk force unloading rmmod -f loop && modprobe loop and mounting install disk back in. Crashed my kernel a couple times doing the install witha segfault if i unloaded too much it worked the third time.
I just linked the game to use that name of folder that that cd makes after all was installed.

It would be nice though if a cd emulation program would just use a standard naming scheme and have a good way to swap between iso's during a install.

I will try editing the source code maybee n see if its intuitive enough for me to swap out the variable that names the folder when it mounts and put static value in for at least drive 0 but it might still have a locked folder if a setup program is using it so this might not matter to be solved at this point considering how rarely I install a multi cdrom program.
 
  


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