Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Fred Miller <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 May 2004 6:34 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
> > I did my upgrade today FROM 9.0. There were a number of dependancy
> > problems, but got rid of them when I told Yast to delete Gimp and Gaim.
> > All seems to be well, EXCEPT (once again - a CONTINUAL problem for Linux)
> > getting the CD-RW drive to work. KDE didn't come up with a CD icon, so I
> > had to create it. Fstab does have the two lines (/dev/cdrom *
> > /dev/cdrecorder) listed.
>
> Sorry that you are having issues.  New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount
> to mount the cd and floppy drives.  The icons should be found in My
> Computer.  Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs
> and floppies.

Great idea - if it works. :(

> > I can't read any disk, the system tells me it's mounted as
> > /media/cdrecorder, but ls reports that there's no medium in the drive.
> > YES, the system does correctly identify the drive, and I installed from
> > that drive, plus Yast can use it to install additional software.
>
> How are you trying to read it?  If supermount is working correctly, all
> you have to do is cd to the directory that the drive will mount to.  Ex
> cd /media/cdrecorder.

'Doesn't work. I called SUSE tech. support but they didn't have an answer 
either.

Fred

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