> 
> If this has been brought up, I appologize. I haven't been reading the
list
> recently.
> 
> Here's the problem:
> I have cooker and contrib local on my hard drive. recently I tried to
> install
> something but urpmi thinks that the medium is removable. It unmounts
the
> partition and then complains that it can't find the packages. Here is
the
> output:
> 
> [root@mercury root]# urpmi kde3-koffice
> eject: unable to eject, last error: Input/output error
> Please insert the medium named "Contrib" on device [/dev/hda11]
> Press Enter when it's done...
> 
> What determines what is removable and what is not? 

man urpmi.addmedia
cat /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg

you'll have to remove and read all your media. Or directly edit all
files /var/lib/urpmi/list.* (removable:// -> file://)

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