On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 06:54:13PM -0700, Michael Noble wrote:

> I have installed 9.0 on a machine with 1G of memory so of course it
> uses the enterprise kernel.  When I go to get updates  it tries to access
> the cdrom drive and hangs for a long time.  If I put a cd in the drive
> the update goes without problems. 
> Does anybody know why this is happening and other than leaving a
> cd in the drive, is  there a solution?

You could disable supermount.  "supermount -i disable".

I believe it's because urpmi is trying to read the cdrom because you have
sources defined (your install CDs) that use it.  If you disable supermount,
you shouldn't have this problem (I religiously disable supermount).

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