[robomatic]

Happy Holidays, folks!

I installed a new Mandrake Linux 10.1 Distribution. It seemed to load okay but towards the end of it it gave short shrift time-wise to the 3rd CD. In other words, when it asked for the 3rd CD it loaded it and then spit it right back out and didn't seem to realize it had ever read it. But I ended up with a working Linux OS, including ability to read and burn CDs on my Plextor drive, and broadband internet access.

However, it didn't have a program for playing music, which I was led to believe it should have.

So I went over to Control Center and looked at sound programs, and there were a bunch of them in there with unchecked boxes. In particular I'm after amaroak and audacity. When I try to check them I get windows saying I need to load other items, I agree to this, and the boxes get checked. When I try to do an Install, the system tells me to load various CDs from my original distribution, but it spits them out and says I need to insert the very disks I've been trying to insert. So it's not recognizing the original disks of the distro.

I hasten to add that I've checked them against their md5 numbers, and they do check out.

Any ideas of why I can't get the disks recognized? The only thing to add is that when I get tired of this repetitive process, I hit 'cancel' button and I get a small error window saying "There was an error during installation - medium (cdrom 2) is not selected".

I'm not sure what to make of this message. I certainly had the second install disk inserted into the cd player, and the computer certainly was making an effort to read the disk.

[fishhookz]

I think there's a huge Mandrake users forum somewhere on the Web. You would get many more responses there.

Is it the community or paid version? I was installing the Comm. and install didn't go past loading software list.

I'd highly recommend SuSE 9.1 Personal or Pro. It works out of the box.

[robomatic]

fishhook:

Are you telling me you couldn't get your Mandrake Linux to work?

I got mine working, i've just got this frustrating thing happening where it tells me to load installatioin CD 2, and then it doesn't recognize it, apparently.

Tell me more about SUSE and why you chose it and how to get it.

Robo

[Whiteskin]

Well, you could always try downloading the amarok/audacity mandrake rpms off of the internet, especially now that you have net acess.

[robomatic]

I have downloaded Amaork/audacity but I run immediately into the problem that they need supporting programs which I have to locate. Command Center has provisions to handle all this and if it would only recognize the install disk set I think I would be clear. In addition, with this problem recognizing CDs, I feel as if I'm working off a partial install, so who knows what else may not be there that should be?

[robomatic]

I think I know what the problem is, but I don't know how to fix it, remember I'm a noob:

When I am in Configure Computer and it asks for me to insert a CD, it is looking for dev/mnt/cdrom. In actuality, my devices list (2) CD units, cdrom and cdrom2 (I do not know why). When I insert the CD, it is recognized by the system as being in cdrom2. If I go into cdrom2 I can see the disk. Meanwhile, Configure Computer isn't seeing anything in cdrom. When I get tired of the go around and 'cancel' it then hits me with an error message that it saw nothing in cdrom3.

So, what is the expeditious way to convince Configure Computer that it can 'see' the loaded CDROM?

[robomatic]

Okay, I'm marking this thread 'solved'. I utilized the Configure Computer / Hardware and was able to re-assign the mount for the CD ROM so that not only was the CD player reading the CD, but the system knew where to look for it. I don't know why this didn't get 'done' by the system in the first place, but now I am loading software and way ahead of where I was a couple days ago.

Interestingly, while no one else was able to help me (this time) in the forum, the very act of coming here and putting my problems into words made a positive difference.

I thank those who responded and I thank myself with frank admiration.