oRGy Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 Hey all I just added the servers and contribs etc of PLF to my urmpi, all configured correctly, and decided to install the plf rpms of mplayer, so I did a "urpmi mplayer", and it sucessfully listed the rpms that needed to be installed. When I started to install, it asked me for cdrom1 of the 9.1 distro, on /dev/hdc, and ejects the cd. The correct cd is in the drive. Whats going on? I am perplexed. Previously urpmi worked without a hitch :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 did you try putting it back in and saying "ok"? (maybe try a few times...) is the CD still in good condition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRGy Posted June 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 The CD is perfect and I must have retried about 10 times, using both the urpmi commandline and the graphical installer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 trying mounting the CD before you start installing....maybe supermount is being weird :-/ (these are just guesses, this is an odd problem) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 I've had that problem before, and it is related to supergoof-- I mean supermount. Turn it off, and mount your devices the ol' fashioned way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRGy Posted June 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 How does one disable supermount exactly? ah, yes, "supermount disable" ;) hm, will give this a go. do I have reboot I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 No, you do not have to reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRGy Posted June 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 Hm, I had to reboot and then renable supermount again for it to work. Strange... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 *sniff* i knew i smelled a supermount oddity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 I just disabled supermount in my /etc/fstab. I changed this: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 to this: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 Come to think of it, I also edited /etc/fstab by hand, and shut off supermount on the command line. I killed the critter, and it never came back!! :mystismiles: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 24, 2003 Report Share Posted June 24, 2003 Yeah quite aside from the Cd oddities I was horribly perplexed by the delayed writes to floppies. While setting up the NW with internet access I kept copying bits a bobs to floppies and then getting a mysterious empty floppy at the other end. It was wierd bacuase I could say open a pdf file from /mnt/floppy but it wasn't really there it was cached. When I was more patient I waited, a long time and heard it actually write to the floppy. Turning off supermount solved this.... Also had problems with umounting supermounted NFS volumes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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