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yurimodin

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Registered: 2025-06-09

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[SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

got a weird error where Excalibur is asking for me to put the install ISO in when I chose RUNIT instead of SysV......anone else seen this?

UPDATE: it was asking for it to be mounted at /media/cdrom even though it was mounted at /cdrom so I created it and mounted it there as well but its still asking....

Last edited by yurimodin (2025-06-20 19:14:50)

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

I'd guess your "I chose RUNIT" means to install some software, and your /etc/apt/sources.list nominates /media/cdrom as a repository (of cdrom type), which is one of the babies that came with the installation. If you remove that, or comment it out, in /etc/apt/sources.list your system (aka "it") will no longer ask for that repository.

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

Yes, I can confirm that. To make it worse, there's no Back button and pressing ESC just makes that screen reload.

Update: right before I selected runit, I dropped to console, chrooted /target and edited /etc/apt/sources.list to comment out the cdrom line. The installer continued normally when I selected runit.

yurimodin

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Re: [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

Update: right before I selected runit, I dropped to console, chrooted /target and edited /etc/apt/sources.list to comment out the cdrom line. The installer continued normally when I selected runit.

THANKS......you would think that apt could figure out to pull packages from the online repos in its sources.list

fsmithred

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Re: [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

Apt know what to do based on what's in sources.list and the installer is messing with that file and with mounting/unmounting cdrom when it thinks it should do that. Someone is working on the fix.

yurimodin

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Registered: 2025-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

Apt know what to do based on what's in sources.list and the installer is messing with that file and with mounting/unmounting cdrom when it thinks it should do that. Someone is working on the fix.

I'm not upset or anything, that's why its called 'testing'........funny part is I just reverted back to SysV anyway since the Devuan implementation of runit seems to be a weird hybrid of SysV and runit. I was trying to go for the VOID experience of pure runit. No big deal SysV works good.

fsmithred

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Re: [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT

The debian/devuan runit will use sysvinit scripts if there's no run script for a service. If/when you install runit-init, be sure to include runit-services which will give you a bunch of run scripts.