On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:56:31AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
> > and choose some more packages to "install," then tell it to install, it
> > gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
> > dselect, umount /cdrom, then re-enter dselect, select install and off she
> > goes...
> Yes. The dpkg methods that know how to mount media expect to do that
> for themselves. If they find that something is already mounted where
> they want to work they will give up rather than interfere. The solution
> is not to mount CDs or whatever unless you're actually using them -
> giving them the noauto method in fstab will stop this happening
> automatically when you start up.
Also, if you want to have your cd mounted, you can change your access
method in dselect to "mounted," and just point it to your cdrom mount
point.
MG
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