> > > > > > > the cdrom drive and hangs for a long time. If I put a cd in > > > > the drive the update goes without problems. > > > > Does anybody know why this is happening and other than leaving > > > > a cd in the drive, is there a solution? > > > > > >You could disable supermount. "supermount -i disable". > > > > > >I believe it's because urpmi is trying to read the cdrom because > > > you have sources defined (your install CDs) that use it. If you > > > disable supermount, you shouldn't have this problem (I > > > religiously disable supermount). > > There is no right answer. If you use it and it works for you, you > are right to be using it. On all but one of my boxes I do use it. > The one I don't use it on doesn't have a cd or floppy. For me it > works, has been since 7.2. If however it doesn't work for you, or > gets in your way. remove it. I personally remove msec. Why, some of > the things I need to do for testing get hosed by msec. Does this > make your wrong for using it.... no. In general if you can't find a > problem it just might be because for you..... there isn't one. > > James
Thanks for the tip on disable supermount. I have a Dell Latitude CPi D300XT that refuses to play well with supermount: It's one of those either or situations --either a floppy or a printer or a zip drive. Since 8.2 I've disabled Supermount by the following lines in fstab: replacing supermount with auto, and umask=0 with noauto; however, I always had to mount/umount manually. The "supermount -i disable" command modifies fstab: replacing supermount with auto, and umask=0 with nodev; which now works great and automounts with Krusader as it used to in 8.1. No more mount/umount via a console. Most desktop machines work fine with supermount I'm told. Thanks, Richard.
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