Thanks for helping out on this --- it's a really mysterious bug; it has to be something to do with the kernel sources config, but I can't find any smoking gun.
>>>>> "w" == warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: w> There is no multisession on Mandrake disk. It was just a guess based on a posting Google found related to these same messages (actually related to _writing_ multisession) w> The problem may be the options used to mount the disc. /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount \ dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 these are the very same options used to mount the disk using the binary kernel, and the kernel-2.4.18-6mdk binary kernel reads the CD with no problems at all. It is most curious that on _all_ three CDs it will read all other files and directories _except_ /Mandrake and its descendants. w> What does isoinfo -i /dev/cdrom -l -R gives ? /dev/cdrom was not created by the install running isoinfo on /dev/hdc gives the correct -lR display of all the files. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)