Matlab installation error in fedora 8 (osama mahdi)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:56 -0400, osama mahdi wrote:
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>         Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:35:56 -0400
>         From: "osama mahdi" <osama.mahdi at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Matlab installation error in fedora 8
>         To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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>         Hi guys,
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>         I tried to install Matlab7 with fedora 8_x64, but I always got
>         the following
>         error:
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>          /media/MathWorks_R14_1/install
>         cp: cannot stat `/media/MathWorks_R14_1/update/bin/glnxa64/*':
>         No such file
>         or directory
>         Error writing to /tmp/5507tmwinstall
>         The installer is unable to copy files to /tmp.
>         Make sure that /tmp exists, is writable, and has
>         at least 5 megabytes of available space.
>         
>         I tired to install it as a root and a regular user, but i got
>         the same error
>         for both cases.
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>         I also found the /tmp folder and there is nothing wrong with
>         the
>         permissions, any user can create folder and write files in
>         the /tmp
>         directory.
>         
>         Thanks
> 
> 
> Guys I solved this problem by using the following parameters install
> -glnx86 -nocp
> 
> no I am facing another problem, during the installation I need to
> remove CD1 and put CD2 in the CDROM but I could not eject the CDROM
> and  I got the following message:
> 
> device is busy
> 
> any solution please ?

You don't say how you tried to eject it. "eject cd" from the Shell is
one way, but if it won't work it may mean the install process still has
open files or its current directory on CD1. You can find out by doing
"fuser /dev/<cdrom-device>" (as root).

poc