[freespace2] Mandrake 9.2 supermount or not?

[Joseph M. Anderson]

thanks i'll do as you describe here and i'll let everyone know the results.

-----Original Message-----
From:	dave [mailto:dave at dchamp.net]
Sent:	Mon 2/23/2004 6:02 PM
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Subject:	Re: [freespace2] Mandrake 9.2 supermount or not?
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Taylor Richards wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:28, Joseph M. Anderson wrote:
> > When using the installer with supermount enabled, the installer
> > doesn't seem to see disk 1, and continually prompts me to insert the
> > disk.
> 
> This is with ravage's installer right?  FS1 or FS2?  Really I think that
> this is a known issue with loki_setup.  With no discs loaded disable
> supermount.  Then manually mount disc 1 and run the installer again. 
> When it prompts for the next disc manually unmount and mount the next
> disc until install is complete.  Also make sure that you are not in the
> same directory in the shell or GUI filemanager when doing all of this to
> help avoid the "device busy" messages.
> 
> Also try http://icculus.org/lgfaq if this doesn't work for you.  There
> may be some other solutions that do help.  If none of that works let me
> know and I'll think of something else, or someone else may have an idea
> or two.
> 

Have you checked the permissions on your /dev/cdrom? It could be that if 
you're running the installer as a non-root user, you don't have permission 
to mount the CD.

Also, check the output from "dmesg" after the install hangs to see if 
there's anything interesting there about the cdrom.

-dc



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