On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 16:29, Charlie wrote: > > I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system.
> > When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five > > minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the > > system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But > > apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y... > Howdy Seth; > > It's looking for the 1st install CD. Put it (CD1) in the drive and you won't > have such slow responses. > > I have no idea why but mine does the same thing and fills the logs with 'error > accessing cdrom previous message repeated umpteen times' type of fluff. I > ignore them of course. > > It's a supermount thing. Supermount is still not quite "all things to all > hardware configurations" or all people for that matter. Just run update with > the CD in the drive and grit your teeth. > Regards; I was unable to reply immediately when I got this advice, but God bless you, because it did the trick. It would seem to be a fairly significant bug that they should have issued a patch for. However, your advice worked, and has saved me a lot of grief. Thanks very much. Seth Williamson Floyd, VA USA
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