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Mandrake 9.0 won't take CD2

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Name: bookn2
Date: December 7, 2003 at 03:03:55 Pacific
OS: Windows NT4, 2000, XP, Ma
CPU/Ram: 500MHz Celeron w/ 256MB R
Comment:

I run Mandrake 9.0 on a fairly old laptop (233MHz Pentium MMX, 32MB EDO RAM, 30GB HDD).

I can boot from CD1 adn begin an installtion, but I don't get the usual prompt asking which CDs I've got (I've only got CD1 and 2). The installation defaults to CD 1 only, so I can't install any of the extra networking stuff, development tools or small window managers.

To make matters worse, when I can mount the CD-ROM drive after installation, it mounts it, reads a few bytes, whirrs a bit then will not read any more, but there is no way that I can install packages from the second CD. I've inserted other CDs and had the same problem, but only under Mandrake 9.0. I have no problems of this sort with RedHat 7.0 (freezes during boot with network services), SuSE 9.0 (too slow on this laptop), or Windows NT 4 or 2000. The install works normally and can mount CDs fine on my desktop PC.

I also have a similar problem on all PCs with Mandrake, and that is that I cannot access the CD-ROM drive when logged in as Root - the Gnome reports that it cannot display all of the contents of the folder and KDE and the console tell me I don't have permissions to the drive, despite being root.

Please help...



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