Orange Box & Crossover Woes

[imLOST]

I realise that there is a thread discussing the Orange Box already and indeed the same question was asked there too but the reply given didn't work and I also thought that it would get more traffic here. I apologise if you deem this unnecessary.

OK, here's the jazz. I have a 30 day trial of CrossOver. I've installed Steam and it works fine. I then proceed to install Half Life 2 and team Fortress 2. However, when I'm prompted to put in the second disk, I'm unable to eject the first one as I'm told that it's in use and to quit the application and try again. But I don't want to quit because that will undo the installation thus far.

I've tried :

Ejecting through finder.
Pressing the button on the keyboard
Going to Utilities > Disk Utility > Eject
And in the Terminal, typing "drutil tray eject"

Are there any other options that you can think of?

 

[Eidorian]

I never used the install media for Steam in Crossover. I just downloaded the titles that I wanted to play.

 

[imLOST]

I'm thinking that I might rip the DVD's to the Hard Drive and seeing if I can install that way. Sure, it's worth a shot even if it doesn't work!

 

[bmb012]

Yeah, that's what I was about to suggest, or if you have another mac somewhere, connecting to the mac's cd drive with a firewire cable. But yeah, ripping it to the harddrive would be your best option. If the disk utility one doesn't work, mounting with Toast sometimes has different results.

 

[Mushrooshi]

Bootcamp is easy, but I don't htink you want that route. Tell me how to configure it and then you eat juppies ^^

 

[mystictheurge]

Under leopard, to install orange box with crossover, when it asks for disc2 type "sudo umount -f /Volumes/"Orange Box" without the quotes. Hit the eject button, and put in disc 2.

 

[Consultant]

Any luck with the command line eject?

Also, CrossOver 6.0.1 release note
"Fixed a bug in the 'eject' button. Previously many multi-CD installs failed when performed in any non-default bottle. Now multi-CD installations should succeed in any bottle."

By the way, you should change the title of the thread to something that's more specific, such as: "Force Eject DVD during CrossOver app install", or leave it vague for people to read the thread. =p

 

[Natrix316]

I have a MBP trying to do the same thing but I got it to work. I did what mystictheurge said but I didn't use /volumes/orange box I typed.

sudo umount -f /dev/disk1 *use location of your disk. mine was /dev/disk1
hdiutil eject /dev/disk1

 

[tominated]

this is kinda off topic, but i got my copy through steam and in portal and TF2 (haven't downloaded HL2 yet) randomly lock up and bring my whole imac down with them
BTW: this is using crossover

 

[UK-sHaDoW]

Download it?

I'm not sure but when you use a retail orange box, its asks to use cds?
Install on a windows machine. Then when log in on your account on any other machine, it will then download it, rather than asking for cd's.

 

[mrvain]

I'm unable to eject the first one as I'm told that it's in use

I have written a step by step guide for installing The Orange Box on a Macbook using CrossOver. The guide addresses this issue and can be found here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/418295/

 

[OmarM]

Under leopard, to install orange box with crossover, when it asks for disc2 type "sudo umount -f /Volumes/"Orange Box" without the quotes. Hit the eject button, and put in disc 2.

I love u urge...thank u very much me

 

[McBanjo]

If you hadn't noticed yet the new CrossOver Games is out! It should provide much more compatibility with some games, if you can get it to work unlike me.