On Friday 02 January 2004 07:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2004 12:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Thursday 01 January 2004 08:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > -> Has anyone had luck installing the box set of UT2003? I have followed > > the -> suggestions for disabling supermount to install and still get > > "device or -> resource busy" when trying to umount the cd and put in the > > next. So I can not -> change CDs at all. Running 9.2 with DVDROM and > > DVDWriter but don't know if -> that is the problem. I had the demo > > version running just fine. The installer -> is definitely an after > > thought on the commecial set. Any ideas? > > > > Dennis, I have it here and the install worked. Its truly an awkward > > afterthought kind of thing, like you mentioned though. If you did the > > usual: > > > > supermount -i disable > > > > then it should work. Did you try not cd'ing into the CD intself? For > > example, don't: > > > > mount /mnt/cdrom (or whatever drive point you use) > > cd /mnt/cdrom > > ls > > sh <installer> > > > > but rather do it "long distance": > > > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > ls /mnt/cdrom > > sh /mnt/cdrom/<installer> > > > > then when it asks for a disk change you should be able to do it. I do the > > install from the shell and use my desktop icon to eject the drive (note > > your icons may still be pointing to a URL from supermount). I picked this > > up from using WineX - and the multiple CD changes needed for Windows > > games there... > > > > :-) > > > > HTHs! > > > > PS BTW, when the darn installer asks for a different CD its asking for > > one thing and the disk is usually labeled something else - just change > > until you find the right one. Don't know why they didn't use something > > like the tried 'n true Loki installer software. > > Thanks, I will give the above a try. I was trying from /mnt but will try > it your way. Thanks again Ron, Ok, that did it, I was actually ok the way I was doing it but in using the DVDwriter I was forgetting to "mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom" once I noticed that little mistake I was able to install. Thanks for the help guys. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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