Yesterday, I reported that I was unable to install packages using dselect. I discovered this morning that I had done something really silly.....I have removed the CD from the drive and put it away........D'OHHHHHHHH .....
However....it still isn't working correctly, and so I am describing the CURRENT problem as follows (in step form) : ============================================================================ ======= (1) Firstly, I keyed in 'mount' with no parameters. As you can see, the cdrom is not recorded as being mounted at this stage : "/dev/hdb2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/cdrive type msdos (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/ddrive type msdos (rw)" (2) I then went into dselect, and attempted to install some packages, and I got the following message .... straight away, that is, with no other messages at all : "Installation OK. Hit RETURN." (In other words, it did nothing.....I might add that I had first attempted to change some selections by going into option 2 - the select option - before installing) (3) So then I attempted to mount the cdrom, and the following was the command and the result : # mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom "mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only" So far, so good (I think....). (4) Then, once again, I keyed in mount with no parameters, and got the following : "/dev/hdb2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/cdrive type msdos (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/ddrive type msdos (rw) /dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro) " (5) I also went to the directory /mnt/cdrom, and did a "dir" - it read the contents of the CD, no problems. So in other words, it could still read off the device. (6) Finally, I went back in to dselect, and attempted once again to install some packages, and got the following message : "mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is mounted on /mnt/cdrom installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. " ============================================================================ ======= As always, any help appreciated..... regards, Andrew J Fortune
