By re-installing, i meant start from scratch, format / and /usr, and then
install soft ware from three cds, where last time I just had the two.
DrakeX wouldn't accept the third cd, so I continued the install without it.
With the new system booted, I did install the kernel source rpm off the
disk, and that's where the second problem started.
So yes, two separate problems, but I'd wager both because of how I made the
disk; I'll try again today with JUST the iso and see what happens
Thank you!
Andy
Jason
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n.net.nz> Subject: Re: CD ROM peculiarity
07/03/2003
23:33
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to linux-users
>Hi everyone
>
>I've slowly been installing a Mandrake 9.0 system at home, downloading an
>iso cd at a time at work when no one has been looking, and re-installing
>with the additional software that evening.
>
When you say re-installing do you mean a fresh install or just putting
the 2nd CD in and going from there on an already installed system??
>On Tuesday I burnt the third,
>'international' cd, took it home, and the Mandrake would spit it back at
me
>when I tried to get rpms off it (using installdrake, I think? what ever
you
>boot of the 1st cd when installing a new system).
>
The utility is called DrakX. If you are trying to install off of this
disk then yes, it will fail as the installer resides on the first disk.
You tell it how many disks you have when you are going through the first
disks install routine and the installer sets up the RPM lists from that.
>
>I had a look at the directory listing of the disk, and everything is
there,
>in the right location. I can open up one file and look at it ok, and thats
>where the trouble starts - from then on I can ONLY look at that file. ls
in
>console lists all the files, but appends each file name with 'invalid
file'
>or 'file not found', I cant quite remember which. Except for the one I
>opened previously, it is still there and I can view or install it as I did
>previously.
>
This sounds like a problem with supermount. 9.0 was notorious for these
problems. Disable supermount (then manually mount the CD) and tell me if
that helps. You are confusing me here, on the one hand, it seems like
you are trying to use this disk to install from and on the other hand it
sounds like you are trying to install individual RPM's from the CD.
Which is it or are there separate problems?? Also, remember, unless you
tell DrakX that you have all 3 CD's during the initial install, the 3rd
cd will not be setup as a source in URPMI/Software manager. You can set
it up after the fact but that is more of a hassle.
>
>To install another file off the disk, I have to restart the computer. So
if
>there are dependencies and I need to install two at once, tough.
>
Yup, sounds like a supermount problem.
>
>The only thing I did different with the third disk was to burn the iso,
and
>then I added some extra files before closing it completely. Could this be
>the cause of my trouble?
>
Um, yes, AFAIK you cannot have anything on the disk other than the ISO,
otherwise you are asking for trouble. To test it, try it with JUST the
ISO and tell us what happens.
>
>Also, why is it called the international cd? (not cd3)
>
Because most of the packages on that CD are for foreign language support
within the distro.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Jason
PS, you'll want the plf ISO/RPM's as well if you want to burn rip/encode
MP'3's, watch DVD's etc etc.
See more at:
http://plf.zarb.org/
