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Kabi

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Registered: 2007-12-05

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[SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

Where can i change how cd's are mounted? I want to try to remove the noexec option as suggested lower down in this thread...

I just installed archlinux again, and trying to install World of Warcraft...

But something is wrong when the cd's are mounted. It looks as if there is 2 instances of the file tome.mpq when there should only be one, and the size of the files are very much of.

I remember this problem from last time I had arch installed, but can not remember how I solved it.
Maybe I forgot or did something wrong when installing arch...?

Any ideas?

Last edited by Kabi (2008-04-24 20:55:57)

calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

Are you mounting the cds manually? If so, you should probably just leave that to hal(if you have configured it).  I would try installing/configuring hal. Could you describe your problem a little more?

After reading a tutorial, I didn't see a mention of a problem like yours, I don't know if it's arch specific, but I don't think you have done anything wrong during the install. What is the time.mpq file  for?

Kabi

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=26945

This guy seemed to have the same problem...

The tome.mpq is a file containing world and game data... It is probably compressed somehow.

I have not experienced this in other distributions, but that doesn't prove in any way that it is an arch specific problem. I do remember the problem though from last time with arch, which was about 6 months ago.
I am letting hal do the job and I get no errors. Only when I try to install WoW since the data is not there. It says no installer present.

Could it be that I need some library or something like that to be able to read some kinds of cd's?

Last edited by Kabi (2008-04-24 16:44:40)

Kabi

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

Does this make a difference?

When mounting the WoW-cd in Dreamlinux it is mounted as follows:
/dev/hdc on /media/WoWDisc1 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)

In Archlinux:
/dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,unhide,user="my-user")

Could some of these differences be causing the problem?
I am trying to google on this but have found nothing yet I could use, or at least understood that I could use.

calef13

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

Well, I'm not sure what the noexec option does for mounting, but you could try removing it and seeing what happens. I don't think you need anything special to read the data from the cd. Tbh, I did see a guide explaining how to copy the data from the cd and point wine to the data on your disk, you say there is a duplicate file, you could delete the duplicate. Or apparently you can install it in windows and run it from the windows partition. Sorry I don't have better fixes, I don't use this software at all.

Kabi

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

The problem is not installing WoW. I have done this many times. The problem is how the cd is being read and I am afraid this will cause me trouble later on when trying to read other cd s as well.

I do not know where to remove noexec since none of the above mentioned options are in fstab. So if you could tell where I could try to experiment with this my self.

I really want to use arch, since I normally find it much easier to do what I want than in many other distributions. And since the mentioned problem does not happen in Gentoo, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, Dreamlinux, Mandriva and OpenSUSE it should be possible to fix it here.
I just need to find out what is wrong.....

But thanks for your input so far

tigrmesh

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

When mounting the WoW-cd in Dreamlinux it is mounted as follows:
/dev/hdc on /media/WoWDisc1 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)

In Archlinux:
/dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,unhide,user="my-user")

Have you tried mounting
/dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom

as
type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)
?

Kabi

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Registered: 2007-12-05

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Re: [SOLVED] something wrong mounting cd

Thanks for the help!!

This is what I did:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom

And it works..
Just didn't know the syntax for doing this before...

Last edited by Kabi (2008-04-24 20:56:56)