MDV 2008 PWP help cdrom

Mr H

I have just tried to install updates and it failed
I have 2 DVD drives and when updates try to updates, it needs some
things off the DVD' but it cannot find the Drive it is looking for
CDROM2 and I what I get is
Please insert the medium named "Mandriva LINUX -2008.0(Powerpack 64) -
installer" on device [/dev/cdrom2]

Diskdrake
Mount point: /media/cdrom2
device : hda
type:auto
options: unmask=0022.users.iocharsets = utf8.ro.exec

btw if I insert a cdrom or dvd the drive works perfectly
please can you help me?

Jim Beard

Mr H wrote:
> I have just tried to install updates and it failed
> I have 2 DVD drives and when updates try to updates, it needs some
> things off the DVD' but it cannot find the Drive it is looking for
> CDROM2 and I what I get is
> Please insert the medium named "Mandriva LINUX -2008.0(Powerpack 64) -
> installer" on device [/dev/cdrom2]
>
> Diskdrake
> Mount point: /media/cdrom2
> device : hda
> type:auto
> options: unmask=0022.users.iocharsets = utf8.ro.exec
>
> btw if I insert a cdrom or dvd the drive works perfectly
> please can you help me?

Umask 0022 sets permissions to read/write/exec for root
only. This has to be changed when the disk is mounted,
or the program using it has to run set user id to root,
-- or you have to change the umask to 0 in /etc/fstab --
or it will not work for a user. Why it is not being
automatically mounted with permissions changed is beyond
me. Changing the setting in fstab should do the trick.

My question is, why are you trying to update from
the DVD ? To get new updates, you need to go to
a Mandriva mirror.

You can set up your sources using the Mandriva Linux
Control Center, but I would recommend you go to
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions
carefully.

Then update your system, either via the MCC or using
urpmi. The following line from BitTwister works well
for me.

urpmi --wget --auto-update --auto-select --auto

Put the above in an ascii file, and then
chown root:root newfile
chmode 755 newfile
and as root ( su - root) run the file
../newfile

Initial updates may be numerous and large. I do not
yet have my copy of 2008, but for 2007 initial updates
totaled 700 MB.

Note that new kernels are never an update, but a
new install, for a couple of reasons. The old
kernel is not removed or replaced (this provides a
fallback if the new kernel does not work on your
machine), and it forces you to deliberately take
action to update the kernel. You cannot do it by
accident.

Finally, once you have mirros working to provide updates,
if you are on broadband, remove your DVD sources from
your update sources. Depend entirely on the mirrors, as
this will ensure you always get the current version.
If you are on dial-up, keep the DVD sources in place, as
you may need them for installing large packages that
have not been updated since release of the DVD.

Cheers!

jim b.

--
UNIX is not user-unfriendly; it merely
expects users to be computer-friendly.

Bit Twister

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:31:22 +1100, Mr H wrote:

> I have 2 DVD drives and when updates try to updates, it needs some
> things off the DVD' but it cannot find the Drive it is looking for
> CDROM2 and I what I get is
> Please insert the medium named "Mandriva LINUX -2008.0(Powerpack 64) -
> installer" on device [/dev/cdrom2]

Yep, one of the steps in my Admin Diary under New Installs is
#************************************************* ***********
#*
#* If internet is working
#* add contrib, main, updates, ... entries
#*
#************************************************* ***********
mcc
click, "Configure media sources for install and update"
Disable all removable media
Set wget in Options Global
quit mcc

Mr H

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:31:22 +1100, Mr H wrote:
>
>> I have 2 DVD drives and when updates try to updates, it needs some
>> things off the DVD' but it cannot find the Drive it is looking for
>> CDROM2 and I what I get is
>> Please insert the medium named "Mandriva LINUX -2008.0(Powerpack 64) -
>> installer" on device [/dev/cdrom2]
>
> Yep, one of the steps in my Admin Diary under New Installs is
> #************************************************* ***********
> #*
> #* If internet is working
> #* add contrib, main, updates, ... entries
> #*
> #************************************************* ***********
> mcc
> click, "Configure media sources for install and update"
> Disable all removable media
> Set wget in Options Global
> quit mcc
Thank you Bit Twister, you are a Wiz at Linux it seems

Mr H

Jim Beard wrote:
> Mr H wrote:
>> I have just tried to install updates and it failed
>> I have 2 DVD drives and when updates try to updates, it needs some
>> things off the DVD' but it cannot find the Drive it is looking for
>> CDROM2 and I what I get is
>> Please insert the medium named "Mandriva LINUX -2008.0(Powerpack 64) -
>> installer" on device [/dev/cdrom2]
>>
>> Diskdrake
>> Mount point: /media/cdrom2
>> device : hda
>> type:auto
>> options: unmask=0022.users.iocharsets = utf8.ro.exec
>>
>> btw if I insert a cdrom or dvd the drive works perfectly
>> please can you help me?
>
> Umask 0022 sets permissions to read/write/exec for root
> only. This has to be changed when the disk is mounted,
> or the program using it has to run set user id to root,
> -- or you have to change the umask to 0 in /etc/fstab --
> or it will not work for a user. Why it is not being
> automatically mounted with permissions changed is beyond
> me. Changing the setting in fstab should do the trick.
>
> My question is, why are you trying to update from
> the DVD ? To get new updates, you need to go to
> a Mandriva mirror.
>
> You can set up your sources using the Mandriva Linux
> Control Center, but I would recommend you go to
> http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions
> carefully.
>
> Then update your system, either via the MCC or using
> urpmi. The following line from BitTwister works well
> for me.
>
> urpmi --wget --auto-update --auto-select --auto
>
> Put the above in an ascii file, and then
> chown root:root newfile
> chmode 755 newfile
> and as root ( su - root) run the file
> ./newfile
>
> Initial updates may be numerous and large. I do not
> yet have my copy of 2008, but for 2007 initial updates
> totaled 700 MB.
>
> Note that new kernels are never an update, but a
> new install, for a couple of reasons. The old
> kernel is not removed or replaced (this provides a
> fallback if the new kernel does not work on your
> machine), and it forces you to deliberately take
> action to update the kernel. You cannot do it by
> accident.
>
> Finally, once you have mirros working to provide updates,
> if you are on broadband, remove your DVD sources from
> your update sources. Depend entirely on the mirrors, as
> this will ensure you always get the current version.
> If you are on dial-up, keep the DVD sources in place, as
> you may need them for installing large packages that
> have not been updated since release of the DVD.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>
Thank you Jim, the updates asked for something off the DVD to install
the updates