G_REEPER wrote:
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> Just a question, 
> I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. Mainly when 
> installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims cd. 
> 
> 
> Just to give you a blow by blow.
>       I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link.
> It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd.
> 
> When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms and I get 
> no rpms found. I get the same if I just try to click the rpms.
> 
> I have copied the entire cd to a drive via  winblows and can install it from 
> the shell with no problems.
> 
> It doesn't seam to be limited to this single cd. As I have yet to get mkiso to 
> make a iso file of any cd.
> 
> Yet Mandrake's add software works fine for installing rpms on their cds.
> 
> Any clues??
> 


Check /etc/fstab.  A common glitch is to have "user" enabled in a 
supermount device. The user option is for manually mounted media (itr 
allows a normal ser to mount the device). Supermount allows user access 
by default, and adding the user option seems to make it go loopy.

Sir Robin


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Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent �niversitesi
Ankara
Turkey

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