On Thursday 28 March 2002 9:58 am, you wrote: > I seem to not need to mount after I insert a CD as it auto mounts. How > do I mount the CD once I have loaded the CD in the drive via a GUI > please but I'll accept cmd line. I did declare it as a removable source > though. if the cd is mounted then don't worry about it, standard mount point in mandrake is /mnt/cdrom/ navigate there and see if cd contents are listed, if not then you could try (as root) #mount -a , which mounts everything listed in /etc/fstab, if the cdrom is ide/atapi then #mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdN /mnt/cdrom, where N will be one of a,b,c, or d, if the cdrom is scsi then the device may be similar to mine which are on /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists first, in kde you should have an icon for your cd drive on the desktop and rightclicking should give a 'mount/unmount' option, if not right click on any empty space and choose 'new CDrom device', choose the correct details on the 'device' tab and them right click that icon; > > i just did this with an old 8.0 cd and the > > 8.0 packages are showing up in the 'installable' list, > > Lucky you, wanna trade places? > > > the source is removable media, as for ftp://rpmfind.net it appears that > > even though it mirrors the RPMS directories for 8.1 and 8.2 it doesn't > > mirror the rest of the distro files, > > Which basically means it doesn't hold the RPM's I need for Mdk 8.0? i'm not sure if it does have 8.0 rpms but if it does it also needs to an hdlist.cz or synthesis.hdlist.cz file for that rpm collection > > > try defining an ftp source with the url: > > ftp.ciril.fr/pub1/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ > > > > > and the relative position of the hdlsi file as ../base/hdlist.cz > > I did it with 8.0 substituted for 8.2 in the above whilst I had to su to > use the software manager and was off line and entered everything except > a username and password. I then added it and clicked on reload lists and > the source I had just added wasn't even probed before it filled the > trees so I went back to defining the sources and saw that the entry I > had just added had disappeared. forgive me if i am confused but you mention being offline and adding sources, this should work for the cds - not sure why it's not working for you, but you need to be online for adding remote sources using software manager since it fetches a copy of either hdlist.cz or synthesis.hdlist.cz during the add source process and if it can't fetch them this will fail, > I think it is time to reinstall personally but I know someone who has > been getting me to change hundreds of files for configuration of this > and that just isn't going to be happy. :( Asides from that I am not able > to do a backup yet as my NIC isn't working. SHIT!! so I end up losing > some very important email from my 'stable system. if you have the 8.0 cds and you installed from them then you should have had them automatically set up fro you as sources in software manager, doing an upgrade as suggested elsewhere would add them as sources again (this can lead duplicate entries i delete any sources listed before upgrading from cds), if you installed online then again that install source should have been set up for you, i think an upgrade is worth a try before reverting to windows - though a backup beforehand wouldn't go amiss! your very last try might be to remove rpmdrake and urpmi and related dependencies plus the /var/lib/urpmi/ and /etc/urpmi directories and then upgrade, perhaps these many config changes you mention have broken something? bascule -- The wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays. (Witches Abroad)
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