Re: Further on the DSELECT saga.....
Excuse my ignorance.. but I am still only new at Debian and Dselect. But
don't you have to select the install method from within dselect, with the
cdrom unmounted, as dselect upon selecting the media inwhich you will be
installing from will then procede to mount the cdrom where it would like it
to be mounted, something like /var/dpkg/blah blah..
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew J Fortune <mathman99@geocities.com>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Date: Wednesday, 2 June 1999 10:24
>Subject: Further on the DSELECT saga.....
>
>
>>
>>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) :
>>
>>==========================================================================
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>=
>>=======
>>
>>(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.
>>"
>>
>>==========================================================================
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>>=======
>>
>>As always, any help appreciated.....
>>
>>regards,
>>Andrew J Fortune
>>
>>
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