daemontools for linux

[kendrick]

Linux ftw

Have you tried wine, vmware or any other windows emulator. I have heard that wine has made some favorable progress in their emulation.

Point 1 wine does not properly support things like tsp or other copy protection schemes. so mounting a image is useless if its got protection.

Point 2 mounting a image in linux will NOT allow for disk 2 to be inserted during install. that image would have to be mounted in wine's env. duno how to get wine to play nice that way would probably require conversation between you and them. once disk is mounted and setup.exe is run it will not open/mount another disk untill setup.exe is complete. some setups have protection writen in them that if it is not the original no install.

[Nodens]

No neither, NFS or Samba would work. The only viable option is what ghost already suggested: iSCSI.

[DaemonRools]

umm does nfs or smbfs allow per sector read ... ?

I'm thinking of mount -t smbfs or mount -t nfs

if either of those allows, then we're in business... I think...

[ghost_zero]

But isn't NFS only for file-share?
Copy-Protections require at least access per sectors...

iSCSI could work but even that probably wouldn't work for all protections (e.g. StarForce newer versions)...

[DaemonRools]

Wait ... even a better idea...
you can share the Daemon Tools drive in your VMWare workstation's windows install, and then use Samba to access it... wouldn't that kick-ass-tic?

[DaemonRools]

Isn't daemon tools's driver supposed to take care of that? NFS just does the job of reading from what's read off the vcd through Daemon tool's driver and sending it off to your linux box.

[ghost_zero]

NFS really works with all kinds of copy-protections? Somehow I doubt that...
OK... Cedega/Wine also don't work with all copy protections yet - at least from what I know...

[DaemonRools]

Jebus guys ... think out of the box here!
Have you ever tried the stuff below?

Use VMWare Workstation and make a Windows drive. Install Daemon tools on it, and then grab nfsAxe (Windows NFS server software) and make the virtual drive avail via NFS. The on the linux box mount the Daemon tools drive via NFS (easily done!) and enjoy it under WINE or Cedega or w/e you want to use.

[Starslayer]

http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/daemontools-installer

@ olivnt

I think you dont need a "collection of tools for managing UNIX services" ^^

If you try to mount an Iso-Image at Linux, try this

mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /path/image.iso /mnt/mountpoint

Mounting mdf files at this way should also be possible.

[Jito463]

Ah, I didn't see that.

[Reef]

I think he refers to the link in the first post of this thread, which returns a 404 error. But that doesn't surprise me, since that post is over 4 years old.

[Jito463]

If you're talking about the link in the post above yours, that WAS CDEmu.

[olivnt]

The page is disabled then what to do.

When I try to access the page to get daemon tools for linux, I found out that the page has been disabled. so what to do? Or any one else can show me where to get an altenative program used in linux apart from cdemu?

[cogumbreiro]

Somewhat real Daemontools for linux

This is the closest i've found to a similar program to daemon-tools in Linux world:

http://robert.private.outertech.com/virtualcd/index.html

And if you think about it, on Linux you only burn CDs bin .bin or .iso formats so this will cover (hopefully) every image you produce on Linux.

In what concerns to making Daemon-tools opensource and porting it to linux:

Btw, isn't providing opensource about copy protections illegal? I know that Transgaming (WineX producer) provides his source code but doesn't on topics related to CD protections.

So it could be possible to open daemon-tools up if you just open the souce related to the core emultaion, which is the most needed, the problem is if that core is portable enough.

[Andareed]

Deamon tools will never be open source, imo. If it were, sony/macrovision would be able to find all kinds of annoying ways to blacklist daemon tools.