On Friday 11 October 2002 06:16 am, you wrote: > No, this is not hardware specific. 8.2 worked fine in this machine as > well. Plus many other 9.0 users on the list reported similar problems. I'm > almost certain it's a 9.0 supermount problem. Disabling supermount allowed > me to immediately install those same CDs without problem. > > My guess is that maybe there's a type of copy protection or maybe the a > difference in manufacturing with certain types of CDs that supermount isn't > liking. But I don't know for sure. > But supermount apparently works with some systems (it doesn't appear that everyone has this problem). What is the common denominator for those that have broken supermounts? The only places to look are file structure and then hardware (cd media is hardware). Everybody with broken supermount--who manufactured your cd drive, and what media are you using?
Hopefully, Mandrake wouldn't release with broken supermount (not after doing it with 8.1).
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