On Friday 02 January 2004 12:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2004 08:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > -> Has anyone had luck installing the box set of UT2003? I have followed > the -> suggestions for disabling supermount to install and still get > "device or -> resource busy" when trying to umount the cd and put in the > next. So I can not -> change CDs at all. Running 9.2 with DVDROM and > DVDWriter but don't know if -> that is the problem. I had the demo version > running just fine. The installer -> is definitely an after thought on the > commecial set. Any ideas? > > Dennis, I have it here and the install worked. Its truly an awkward > afterthought kind of thing, like you mentioned though. If you did the > usual: > > supermount -i disable > > then it should work. Did you try not cd'ing into the CD intself? For > example, don't: > > mount /mnt/cdrom (or whatever drive point you use) > cd /mnt/cdrom > ls > sh <installer> > > but rather do it "long distance": > > mount /mnt/cdrom > ls /mnt/cdrom > sh /mnt/cdrom/<installer> > > then when it asks for a disk change you should be able to do it. I do the > install from the shell and use my desktop icon to eject the drive (note > your icons may still be pointing to a URL from supermount). I picked this > up from using WineX - and the multiple CD changes needed for Windows games > there... > > :-) > > HTHs! > > PS BTW, when the darn installer asks for a different CD its asking for one > thing and the disk is usually labeled something else - just change until > you find the right one. Don't know why they didn't use something like the > tried 'n true Loki installer software. Thanks, I will give the above a try. I was trying from /mnt but will try it your way. Thanks again Ron, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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