okay, so i got suse 9.1 working. now i want to install ut2004, rtcw etc. but i have one problem. Since suse auto mounts everything, the installer for ut2004 does not reconize that the cd is mounted in /media/dvd and then just asks me to mount the disk in a po-up window..... any help would be appreciated.

SuSE automounts everything? I've never seen this, and I've used SuSE for the last 3 years. You sure you aren't running some additional automount utility you could disable? If suse is automounting, try a umount and then run the installer (copy the installer locally).
From what I've seen, the UT installer automounts disks as it needs them, and previous versions gave errors while continuing to properly install, but I've not had a problem so far.

Taken form the Suse 9.1 release notes

Removable Media / subfs


Removable media are now integrated via subfs. It is not anymore necessary to mount the media manually. A cd /media/* triggers the automatic mounting. Note that media cannot be ejected while a program is accessing them.

I tried doing a umount before installation, but it was not effective.

any okther suggestions?

ugh...that sounds like a crappy thing to do. I'm now not at all disappointed that I haven't upgraded from 9.0.

Sorry I don't know how to help.

hehe i figured it out.... SuSE has some stupid stupid stupid fstab file... all you gotta do is edit the dvd drive part to be like a "normal" fstab file.... im using:

/dev/dvd /media/dvd iso9660 user,ro 0 0

so this solves everything.... dont not be disappointed about upgrading, i suggest waiting a month though, so that all the bugs will be worked put (e.g. i had to disable my onboard soun in my CMOS and then add my audigy to get the sound to work :S )

Yes SuSE 9.1 trys to auto mount everything and it is very frustrating. a module by the name of subfs is the problem but where in the $%!#$ does it load from? I had a problem burning CD/DVDs because of this stupid mac'winblows feature... for the time being I have renamed the module to prevent it from loading.

just edit your fstab like i did above.

Below is my fstab in SuSE 9.1 Pro. I too do not like the automount crap. I managed to solve the "issue" by use of "noauto" line. Thi sworked for the Windows drive and Floppy. By the CDR adn DVD still automount? I don't understand the earlier suggestion of the change in the fstab. Can someone explain it?

Thanks

Erik

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /windows vfat noauto,users 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,
nosuid,noauto,sync 0 0