> > 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://)