I have a MacPro with a flaky DVD drive, so I tried sharing my Macbook Pro's
DVD drive in order to install Adobe Creative Suite CS4 on the MacPro.
(I am running Leopard 5.5 on both systems.)
I had no trouble sharing the laptop's DVD and getting the install started on
MacPro. However, when Adobe's install process asked me to insert the 2nd
DVD, I was not able to eject the 1st DVD from the laptop. When I hit "eject",
the laptop told me the DVD was in use, and I should quit running applications.
But there is no application to quit! (on the laptop). The install process is
running on the MacPro, and I don't want to quit it; I'm in the middle of it!
I could find no way out of this dilemma other than rebooting the laptop.
After doing this, I could slip in the 2nd DVD, hit Ok in the Adobe install
dialog on the MacPro, and continue the install procedure. Eventually,
I was able to complete the install correctly.
It seems that hitting the eject button should *always* eject the DVD.
If there are applications running, it should kill the applications, or give
me an option to kill them. At the least, it should tell me what those
applications are. And for the specific case of shared DVDs, I assume
there is a server connect from the MacPro running; it should let me
eject the DVD and load in a new one without killing that server connect.
Or some other solution, so that I'm not left in a catch-22 like this.
-Marc Levoy
Stanford University
DVD drive in order to install Adobe Creative Suite CS4 on the MacPro.
(I am running Leopard 5.5 on both systems.)
I had no trouble sharing the laptop's DVD and getting the install started on
MacPro. However, when Adobe's install process asked me to insert the 2nd
DVD, I was not able to eject the 1st DVD from the laptop. When I hit "eject",
the laptop told me the DVD was in use, and I should quit running applications.
But there is no application to quit! (on the laptop). The install process is
running on the MacPro, and I don't want to quit it; I'm in the middle of it!
I could find no way out of this dilemma other than rebooting the laptop.
After doing this, I could slip in the 2nd DVD, hit Ok in the Adobe install
dialog on the MacPro, and continue the install procedure. Eventually,
I was able to complete the install correctly.
It seems that hitting the eject button should *always* eject the DVD.
If there are applications running, it should kill the applications, or give
me an option to kill them. At the least, it should tell me what those
applications are. And for the specific case of shared DVDs, I assume
there is a server connect from the MacPro running; it should let me
eject the DVD and load in a new one without killing that server connect.
Or some other solution, so that I'm not left in a catch-22 like this.
-Marc Levoy
Stanford University