I'm trying to install some packages from the mandrake CDs (version 10) using rpmdrake, but it's not seeing the CD. When I insert the CD and click OK, it continues to ask for the CD. Any ideas? What's another way to install the packages (specifically samba) from the CDs? Is their a better way?

Any help is appreciated

Well at a guess supermount might not be working properly for you. I can't sort this 'cause I never really got it working properly myself However as a workaround you could try mounting your CD's manually.

At a root login prompt type:

Whenever rpmdrake asks for the CD and then click yes. To take the CD out afterwards you will need to type:

afterwards.

Hi,

Yep I have same problem but that mount trick doesn't work.
Command: mount /mnt/cdrom returns error: ' your kerner does not support supermount'

Any other ideas to get rpmdrake reading from CD ???

Forgot to mention

My kernel is 2.6.3 --- if this helps anybody to help :-)

have you gotten all the updates/bug fixes/security fixes? i had the problem initially with 10.0. it would ask for a Cd for a package, insert the CD, it would scan it, pop out the CD in an endless loop. after i installed the updates, etc., then a reboot, the problem was gone.

otis

Thanks,

Need to find those updates.
But I need to mention that I have compiled my kernel myself (Fixed ATI video driver problem -- succesfully) it might be that I missed something in that phase. Not sure. Anyway during boot up there is notification that kernel does not support supermount

Also,

I tried this dirty hack:
rpmdrake searches CD from /dev/scd0 (it is said in the popup) so I made like this:

in /dev dir:
ln -s /dev/cdrom scd0

Now rpmdrake opens CD hatch for me but still refuses to read the disc

a few things to try:

1: goto harddrake, and run the config tool on your cd-rom. Make sure supermount and user are checked under options, and not noauto.

2: you might try recompiling your kernel using an mdk package for source from rpm.pbone.net, and make sure supermount is selected. here's some quick instructions after you install the source RPM.

cd /usr/src
rm linux

ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.7mdk /usr/src/linux //replace linux-2.6.7mdk with the folder created when you installed the source RPM ('ls' should reveal this dir)

cd linux
load the Makefile in your favorite editor - uncomment line 474 (export INSTALL_PATH=/boot)
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make
make modules_install
make install

reboot and pray

and to give credit where it is due, I copied from here.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eboot+and+pray
I would have posted the link by it's self, but i modified the instructions a bit to follow the steps I took when I was in your shoes..

3: all else fails, goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow he directions on there to get RPMDrake to install packages from the intermet. After doing those instructions, goto your software media manager (in the same menu as the other RPMDrake stuff on the star menu) and uncheck the cd-rom disks.

HTH! Both steps one and two worked for me on seperate occasions, but step 3 is nice anyway, even if the drive is working.

Hi,

I was able to fix reading from CD like this without buidling new kernel:
put this in /etc/fstab (i.e replace old CD mount line with this):
Whole story in here:
supermount

Now my drmdrake reads fine from CD and urpmi works also