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 yes, using 8.2 I get the same reliable results as you do. The issue was dealing specifically with 9.0. On Friday 11 October 2002 12:28 am, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 03:41 pm, you wrote: > > Several of my GNU/Linux native games from a variety of vendors (Loki, > > LGP, etc) had problems installing from the CD-ROM as well. When I > > disabled supermount, they all installed flawlessly. Something is > > definitely up with supermount. But it seems to be working fine for small > > day-to-day tasks. > > I think this must be hardware specific. I have 5 machines here, all but > one running 8.2 (it runs 8.0 due to adaptec scsi issues), and supermount > works, dragging to floppy and zip drives works, and dragging to flashcard > readers even works, and dragging from CD to anything also works. One > machine is all scsi, one is mixed scsi and ide, and the rest are all ide (3 > have ide CDR's, and 2 of those also have plain ide CD drives). The only > time I ever had a problem was with 8.1 when it shipped with supermount > broken. > > e.
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