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i have toast titanium, and id like to be able to use it to run things in crossover by mounting virtual cd's in it. is it possible to play games off of toast mounted cds? if so, does it require anything more than just mounting it? like, how do i tell crossover where to look for the required cd?

I'm not sure about Toast Titanium, but if these files are just ISO files you can mount in on the Mac with the Disk Utility and Crossover sees those fine.

I believe Crossover can only see one virtual drive at a time though.

13thmurder wrote:

i have toast titanium, and id like to be able to use it to run
things in crossover by mounting virtual cd's in it. is it possible
to play games off of toast mounted cds? if so, does it require
anything more than just mounting it? like, how do i tell crossover
where to look for the required cd?

There are several questions here. If you want to install something off of a virtual CD, it should be trivial -- most likely the CrossOver Installer will detect these volumes automatically. If it doesn't, you can just navigate to their location in the GUI.

If you want to /run/ something on a virtual volume that doesn't require installation, you'll have good luck with the 'Run Command...' dialog. It'll open up a file browser that will let you point to any .exe.

If you want a program in a bottle to interact with a mounted volume, that may be trickier. In some cases, CrossOver will automatically assign drive letters to mounted volumes. With virtual drives I can't entirely predict when it will and won't, but it might just work. Failing that, you can always navigate to /any/ point in your filesystem via the z: drive, since it is mapped to the / directory of your system.

If you're feeling ambitious and command-line savvy, you can explicitly map in-bottle drive letters to any point in your file system using a symlink. For instance, the default drives in my IE6 bottle look like this:

$ ls -ltra Bottles/Internet\ Explorer\ 6.0/dosdevices/
total 32
lrwxr-xr-x 1 andrew andrew 1 Sep 15 13:40 z: -> /
lrwxr-xr-x 1 andrew andrew 10 Sep 15 13:40 c: -> ../drive_c
lrwxr-xr-x 1 andrew andrew 13 Sep 15 13:41 d:: -> /dev/rdisk2s2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 andrew andrew 13 Sep 17 13:46 y: -> /Users/andrew

So you could easily set up an M: drive to an arbitrary point in your file system like this:

$ $ ln -s /Users/andrew/foo/ m:

Hope I'm not misunderstanding the question :)