On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:06:22 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >B. L. Krieger wrote: >> Thanks for your help. >> >>> >I need help with installing packages. After I installed Mandrake >9.2 >> I >cannot install software. When I open the installation tool, I >can>> >select the packages. Yet when I hit the install button the >program>> >opens a progress bar. After a while I am prompted to put the >CD into>> >dev/hdb. When I put the CD into the drive it does not >recognize it, but>> >prompts me again after a while. >> >> >>> >I have two cd drives installed. The first one is recognised by the >>> >software as CDROM, the second as CDROM2. I cannot open the first >one.>> >After a previous dual boot installation it does not react any >longer.>> >So I only used the second one to set up the system. >> >> >>> what does your /etc/fstab file say it is? >>> i had that problem before and i rechecked my cdrom mount points in >MCC>> and then rebooted and it changed from /dev/hdc to /dev/scd0 and >i was>> able to read my cdrom >> >> >> Sorry for my stupid question, but what is MCC? I think MDK wants to >have > the cd in the drive I have no access to. Here is my fstab. Many >thanks > for having a look at it. >> >> /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 >> /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount >> dev=/dev/hdb,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none >> /mnt/cdrom2 supermount >> dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 none >> /mnt/floppy supermount >> >dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso88 >59-15 > 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c vfat >umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 > 0 0 /dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_d >vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15 > 0 0 none /proc proc >defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda6 swap swap >defaults 0 0> > >MCC is Mandrake Control Center. You fstab looks OK to my non-expert >eyes. I suggest you go into MCC, run Harddrake for good measure, then >go to the Software Media Manager and check your CD sources. > >Sir Robin > well your dev hdb is your second cdrom drive so just put the disk in that one or have you fixed this yet? --
jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++++++++++++++++++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++++++++++++++++++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 05:39:01 up 2 days, 15:43, 3 users, load average: 2.01, 1.72, 1.14
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