I thought the standard name for all cdrom devices was /dev/hdc check your /dev drirectory to see if you have a hdc device and I bet my bottom dollar that is your cdrom device
Jean-Georges Carbonnier wrote: > hello, > > when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM > eveything works good until it begins with dselect. It ask me for the > source and I tell it CDROM, after > it ask me for "the block device type" and it is imposible to go ahead. I > > try some things like this: > /dev/hdb > but it say that the kernel do not support the iso9660 norm. I do not > understand because it make the all instalation from the CDROM. If I > execute a shell I can't mount the CDROM and it tell me the same thing > about the iso norm even if I mount it with the next command: > mount /dev/hdb -t iso9660 /cdrom > Last year with the same computer I could install an older version of > debian. Now I can't install the same version. The only thing that difers > > from before is that I have install a CDROM writer. > I have a pentium 166MMX. > > Notes: > - I can install the latest version of RED HAT and after I can mount > perfectly the CDROM but I prefer to install the Debian distribution. > - Somebody told me that probably the iso9660 file system is configured > as a module but I couldn't do anything wiyh the insmod command. May be I > > don't do it well. > > Thanks a lot.