No obvious way to use second CD drive

[Jouni K. Seppänen]

I have a computer that has an internal CD drive (/media/cdrom) and an external
DVD writer, connected with Firewire (/media/cdrecorder). I upgraded my Hoary
system to Breezy using the DVD. When I inserted the DVD, the system noticed that
it was a Ubuntu disc and offered to start the upgrade; that was very nice, and
it worked fine. However, after the upgrade, I couldn't install more packages
from the same disc, since it wanted me to insert it in the CD drive, which
cannot read DVDs. I found no obvious way to indicate that the disc is in the
other drive. I had used the internal CD drive when installing Hoary.

Specifically, Synaptic prompts me to:

  Please insert the disk labeled:
  Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)
  in drive /cdrom/

(/cdrom seems to be a symlink to /media/cdrom)

I was able to install the packages using apt-get -o
Acquire::cdrom::mount=/media/cdrecorder.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Synaptic should have a option to point to the required device to use. I'm
considering libhal1 for this, but one problem with this is that I want synaptic
to be lean dependencywise. A option to just set it using a entry shouldn't be
hard. But help is appreciated :)

Cheers,
 Michael

[David Császár (p5)]

problem is still in ubuntu 7.10.
funny that the 1st time i inserted the ubuntu dvd into the 2nd drive it automatically offered to open the packet manager. it worked.

but it asked only once and after reboot i'm stuck with this bug.

[Wes (wharp-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this still a valid bug in 8.10? I do not have multiple disc drives in order to test this.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Is this still an issue for you in any newer releases (9.10)? Thanks for testing.

[Jouni K. Seppänen (jks)]

For me personally, this is no longer an issue, since that computer and the external DVD drive are long gone. It is also probably difficult to even buy a CD-ROM drive that doesn't read DVDs, so maybe this particular problem does not arise with new computers, but I imagine that people who have older hardware could have the same problem.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I'll close it for now, but if anyone still gets this issue, please reopen it. Thanks!