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Old 01-23-2003
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I am a complete UNIX newbie (although trying desperately to learn) - I've tried to find the answer here and on the SCO support site but probably don't understand well enough to see that the answer is staring me in the face! So apologies if I am asking a question that has been asked a million times before.

I'm running SCO Openserver v 5.0.5. I'm trying to install a release supplement which I downloaded from the SCO site onto my windows machine, and then burnt onto a CD. When I select my CD drive in software manager I get an error message:

Scan of archive failed
Error opening archive "/"
Test of archive format failed
Can't access file "/tmp/mma000Qm/"
No such file of directory

I have looked in the filesystem manager and /tmp/mma000Qm appears to be the mount point for my cd drive (which I think is called /dev/cd0). I wondered if my CD drive was not mounted properly, so tried to unmount it, but got the message:

Error while unmounting /tmp/mma000Qm
General failure occurred in processing the request
The unmount action failed to unmount /tmp/mma000Qm
Unmount: could not unmount /tmp/mmq000Qm: No such file or directory (error 2)

So I'm not sure if the problem is with the files I have downloaded or if the CD drive is not mounted properly. I don't know how to browse to my CD drive - I tried cd /dev/cd0 but this isn't recognised as a directory.

If anyone has any suggestions that would be really great - have got my head into such a tangle now that I don't know where to go next (again, complete lack of knowledge about UNIX is probably at fault here!) Many thanks.
# 2  
Old 01-23-2003
Why not FTP the file to the SCO box?

Suggested quick fix.
# 3  
Old 01-23-2003
I did think of that, then remembered that I've downloaded this stuff because it contains the driver for the network card I have in there!
# 4  
Old 01-23-2003
Known problem on SCO downloads

Just not sure if there is a solution on their site for a cdrom burn.
Check out this - it may give you a clue -tech article
# 5  
Old 01-24-2003
Thanks - I don't know how I didn't spot this myself. Will have a play with it and see if I can sort.
 
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