G_REEPER wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 -- "The other major kind of computer is the "Apple", which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use." -Dave Barry Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent �niversitesi Ankara Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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