[newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to look at photos (which I've

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Ian
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 20:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:43 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: This may relate to the other problems I am having. ~ maybe, if the 'learning curve' seems a bit steep . . . you might consider running a system entirely off CD . . . someone recently had good experience with 'Feather Linux' best

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple of other things. The reasion is that the mount points for other

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom. All will be good. I

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:14, Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run mkdir /mnt/cdrom.

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 13:33, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting

2004-11-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:34 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error Does 'eject

[newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting

2004-10-31 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy It seems that supermount may not be operating

Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting

2004-10-31 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom:

Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting

2004-10-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom:

Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting

2004-10-31 Thread Charlie
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount:

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:21 pm, John wrote: Thanks Tom and Derek for your replies. Haven't been able to connect to the internet to check mail until today. Had to borrow a connection. Followed your advice in first email,tom, and cd works. Great! Have to get modem up now. It is a

RE: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-13 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:50 pm, John wrote: Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 16:47, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:50 pm, John wrote: Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

[newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread John
I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 May 2004 08:18 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:28, John wrote: I have just upgraded to MD 10 official from 9.2. The cdrom was reconfigured and now it will not mount. It is a memorex cdrw. Would appreciate any help in getting it back up. Thanks John

RE: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread John
Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 Also in 10.0

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-09 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 9, 2004 01:50 pm, John a écrit : Mdk 10.0 now uses magicdev instead of supermount for cdroms Check you have the magicdev package installed, and the line for your cdrom in /etc/fstab should look something like this /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

[newbie] cdrom drive problems

2004-03-13 Thread Marc Resnick
For some reason, my cdrom drive isn't working normally. When booting, it clicks for about the first 20 seconds. Also, I tried to boot from a CD, the Mandrake 10 Community disc, and it just loaded Lilo after about 10 seconds of a black screen with a blinking underscore. The other day it didn't

Re: [newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash

2004-02-07 Thread Grant
--- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 06:41 pm, Grant wrote: --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 01:00 pm, Grant wrote: Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of

[newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash

2004-02-06 Thread Grant
Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely crashes whenever it tries to access a CD in the drive. For example, typing: cd /mnt/cdrom with a CD in the drive spins the CD and crashes the system. Help guys! What

Re: [newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash

2004-02-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 06 February 2004 01:00 pm, Grant wrote: Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely crashes whenever it tries to access a CD in the drive. For example, typing: cd /mnt/cdrom with a CD in the drive

Re: [newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash

2004-02-06 Thread Grant
--- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 01:00 pm, Grant wrote: Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely crashes whenever it tries to access a CD in the drive. For example,

Re: [newbie] CDROM spin causes total crash

2004-02-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 06 February 2004 06:41 pm, Grant wrote: --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 February 2004 01:00 pm, Grant wrote: Hello! I'm using Mandrake 9.1, and all of a sudden it's acting very strange. One of the problems is the computer completely

[newbie] Cdrom mounting problems - K3b did it 8(

2004-01-21 Thread RickS
Hi All, not knowing any reason not to . I setup K3b to copy from cdrom (reader) to cdrom2 (burner) and changed the append line of lilo to add hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi , since cdrdao complains about scsi not being enabled for all the devices ... Well it did work for K3b but I cant

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
S Wieland wrote: I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:50 pm, S Wieland wrote: but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. You might want to doublecheck the jumpers. If they are set to cable select, you

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:50 pm, S Wieland wrote: but my cd rom is not detected in the bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. You might want to

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my western digital drives on my raid controller on my

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 06:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Ian Trickett
Set the CD jumper to cable select and try again Ian - Original Message - From: S Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Cdrom problem I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Poogle
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 14:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my

[newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-13 Thread S Wieland
I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-27 Thread John
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm on cd1 and create a bootfloppy HTH ronald I think I read

[newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread John
I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread ronald
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts

RE: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Mahan Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom failure -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote

RE: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread John
Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Hi It is not an lg.It is a teac cdrw. Everything was working fine up until last week. Cdrom quit working and then the update killed X. 9.2 cd's came in and thought this would be a good time to install. System

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 12:38 pm, John wrote: whack hello again just re-installed new cdrom and changed the jumper to master on the back of the cdrom. Cd-rom worked. Am getting ready to load 9.2. Will be back. Thanks for your responses john

Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-15 Thread John
On Monday 15 December 2003 09:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 15 Dec 2003 10:18 am, amine grun wrote: --- Message d'origine --- De: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:22:01 + Sujet: Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:14 pm

Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote: Hi I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems using both until now. Would appreciate any suggestions on

Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-14 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote: Hi I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems using both until now. Would appreciate any

Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-14 Thread John
On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote: Hi I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems

Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-14 Thread John
On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 3:23 pm, John wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote: Thanks for response. Tried harddrake and noticed the files had changed.

Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:14 pm, John wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 3:23 pm, John wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote: Thanks for response. Tried harddrake

[newbie] cdrom/floppy drives

2003-12-13 Thread John
Hi I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems using both until now. Would appreciate any suggestions on what might correct this. Thanks john Want to

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On cooker list, every single release cycle since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting about a month before scheduled release date. In this thread someone pleads for more testing/time and to kick the release date a little further

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 27 Oct 2003 7:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On cooker list, every single release cycle since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting about a month before scheduled release date. In this thread someone pleads for more

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 27 October 2003 01:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 10:35 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On cooker list, every single release cycle since i'm lurking on it, i see a thread starting about a month before scheduled release date. In this thread someone pleads for more

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mié, 22-10-2003 a las 18:29, HaywireMac escribió: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:09:45 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: that were mostly all blacklisted by kernel.org. I have yet to find such a blacklist. Got a link? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no problems. HTH That's good to hear, the club forums didn't

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:34 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:43:33 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Right, 9.2 on two comps both with LG CDRWs as the main CDROM now. HTH Excellent, load off my mind, thanks. You should post that to the club forums, just so they have the info that CDRW's seem to be okay.

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? This # thing on a command line is your root-prompt. From here you can type in commands, somehow like this C:\ thing in

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 03:08 PM 10/23/2003, Charlie M. said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely, but it seems that Compaq (for one) _has_ heard of LG, and

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely,

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes steady on and the

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:14 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dennis: There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second posting here:

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dennis: There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second posting here:

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Will Mandrake be issuing a new edition for download that has been tested *not* to hose people's hardware? It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. No probs with 9.1 or

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. So all the people

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Plextor rocks. So does Teak Velo.

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. --

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread lduvall
As a former tech support person for the evil empire I find this thread somewhat interesting. We used to say that software does not break hardware - then we had video card settings breaking monitors. Now we have Linux taking it to a new level LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 On Wednesday 22

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway,

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely, but it seems that Compaq (for one) _has_ heard of LG, and shipped a whole bunch of them. Until I hear otherwise, God bless

[newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-21 Thread Dennis Myers
Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes steady on and the drive will not work. At next boot up no light and no

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
Still no joy. On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. Miark Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC? If so, autofs wsa not even listed as something to turn on or off. It

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:45:19PM -0500, Miark wrote: It's simpler to type the following on the commandline as root: supermount disable Well, I did this. and to make it permanent: supermount -i disable And then I did this to make it permanent. Now it takes five and a half

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew try:

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:34:03PM +, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 10:40 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: /usr/sbin/supermount -i disable Thanks that Alan. Got rid of the supermount but I still cannot accesss my CDROM. Heres my /etc/fstab file for anyone interested: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8

[newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
It takes a few minutes to mount a CDROM on my drive using Mandrake 9.0. This is too long. I have a dual-boot machine, choice of SuSE or Mandrake. There is no working Microsoft software on the machine. With SuSE it takes less than a second to mount the CDROM. I suspect very strongly that this

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Mike
On Monday 10 March 2003 04:17 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: It takes a few minutes to mount a CDROM on my drive using Mandrake 9.0. This is too long. I have a dual-boot machine, choice of SuSE or Mandrake. There is no working Microsoft software on the machine. With SuSE it takes less than a

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-10 Thread Miark
It's simpler to type the following on the commandline as root: supermount disable and to make it permanent: supermount -i disable Miark On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:41:45 -0500 Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved this problem by disabling supermount on my removable drives.You can do

[newbie] CDROM Lilo entry?

2002-12-25 Thread Barry Michels
I noticed that there's a 'Boot from floppy' entry in lilo. Is there a way to add a 'Boot from CD' entry? I have an old laptop that can't boot from a CD. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CDROM troubles

2002-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the FAQ. But, I've read lots of howto's and tons of threads on the subject in various boards, and am more confused than when I started. The trouble is with my IDE CD-ROM burner. I'm not trying to burn at this point, just read data CDs reliably.

Re: [newbie] CDROM troubles

2002-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 03:25, John Richard Smith wrote: Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the FAQ. But, I've read lots of howto's and tons of threads on the subject in various boards, and am more confused than when I started. The ones

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