Add/Remove Packages no longer recognizes the CDs

[Erebus]

For some fool reason I didn't install the programming tools when I installed FC2(Simply Overlooked It). Now that I need em, I figured I would just fire up Add/Remove packages and install them from the CDs. Well when it tells me to insert the CD and click OK it doesn't recognize the disc. However I can easily go to /mnt/cdrom/ and see all the files. The little CD icon pops up on the desktop and the whole bit. Appears that only Add/Remove packages thinks there is no disc in the drive. I have no idea how this could have occured.

Any suggestions?

[Mat]

do you have the cd in the same drive from which you installed?

try to run
% system-config-packages --tree=/mnt/cdrom

[Erebus]

I do have 2 drives CD-RW and a DVD drive and I tried both. I use pretty much only use the DVD drive except when I need to burn a CD which isn't often. Not infront of the machine now but will try it later and will post as to the results.

Thanks,

Scott

[vkichu]

if you know the command for add/remove programs, go to a terminal window and type that program as a -su then the program will be able to see your mounted disc.

I have the same problem viewing anything that is mounted because the root id is the one that mounts these drives. Any other user starting the application will not have access by default. YOu need to set some parameters in fstab it seems.

I read something like this in another forum

dev/hda2 /win ntfs user,noauto,umask=0277,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0


will make it available to all users, then your applications will start accessing the mounts okay.

Currently as a workaround i do the same thing for my XMMS player. I go to the terminal window and run the program as an su so that it can acess all the mounted partitions and discs.


Hope this helps

kris

[imdeemvp]

this issue was with fc1 and you needed some updates...have you done all your update thru yum?

[Erebus]

I ran yum -y update and it only DL'd one update(foxfire), however I had updated after the initial install with up2date. I was able to get it to recognize the CDs by running system-config-packages --tree=/mnt/cdrom

So I got everything I needed and updated it with yum after installing from the CDs. SO it appears to be working fine now.

Thanks for the help.