Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages
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=iso8859-15 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 Best, --Bernhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages
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=iso8859-15 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 -- The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the mind set of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'. - Chip Morningstar Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages
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, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 05:39:01 up 2 days, 15:43, 3 users, load average: 2.01, 1.72, 1.14 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages
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? Well, the problem is that MDK recognises hdb as my cdrom, which is right. For some reason, depite of this recognition I cannot open the drive since I had Mandrake installed at the first time as a dual boot with win 2k. After reformatting the harddrive and reinstalling MDK from the cd burner, which went perfectly easy, I am always promted to put in the installation cds into hdb, which is the non-reacting cdrom, whenever I want to install software. The lights of the cdrom do work, so I think there cannot be a mechanical problem. I simply cannot open it any longer. When I put in the installation cds into the burnger MCC does not accept this. Is there a possibility to 'deactivate' this stupid cdrom or to change the settings so that I can install from the burner ? Thanks for your patience, --Bernhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:41 am, B. L. Krieger wrote: Well, the problem is that MDK recognises hdb as my cdrom, which is right. For some reason, depite of this recognition I cannot open the drive since I had Mandrake installed at the first time as a dual boot with win 2k. After reformatting the harddrive and reinstalling MDK from the cd burner, which went perfectly easy, I am always promted to put in the installation cds into hdb, which is the non-reacting cdrom, whenever I want to install software. The lights of the cdrom do work, so I think there cannot be a mechanical problem. I simply cannot open it any longer. When I put in the installation cds into the burnger MCC does not accept this. Is there a possibility to 'deactivate' this stupid cdrom or to change the settings so that I can install from the burner ? Thanks for your patience, --Bernhard I assume hda is your HDD? hdb for your CDrom is a bad location. That's slave to your HDD, not a good mix. IMO, your Cdrom should be hdc (master on the 2nd IDE channel), with your burner as hdd (slave). As to door won't open. Boot somethin else. If you don't have another OS, install memtest86 (urpmi memtest86, or d/l the rpm and install it by hand'). Boot memtest, will your CDrom tray open? If not, it probly is a hardware problem. I recently had to replace an old Cdrom for just that reason. I always install from my burner (hdd). CD-RW's are better readers than any CDrom. But, Mandrake insists on lookin to my DVDrom for CD's. NBD, first thing I usually do is remove them as sources anyhow. If you want to add your CDrom as source, then follow the usuall CL advice given many times on this list (check the archive). I don't know it, I always get rid of CDrom sources. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with installation of packages
Hi there, 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 CDROM_2. 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. Has anybody an idea what I could do ? Thanks in advance for your help. Best, --Bernhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with installation of packages
On 15 Jan 2004 14:58:08 + B. L. Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, 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 CDROM_2. 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. Has anybody an idea what I could do ? Thanks in advance for your help. Best, --Bernhard 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 again -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 09:55:50 up 3 days, 15:17, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
