Hi Ian, Well, I have completed the install and I reboot and login as root and enter the root password. When I try to mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it tells me mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist. I tride to mkdir /mnt/cdrom and still it wont allow me to do that. I don't know why?
I am really confused here, I finally finished the install of kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 and I cant seem to get the cdrom to mount so that I can install the packages. I don't know if this is of any importance, but DMA was not enabled, and the drive is actually a Plextor CDRW 48X, which is located on hdc. I tried to run dmesg | grep ^hd and that's how I see the plextor on hdc. I also ran #modprobe -a ide-scsi but still nothing. I need help here My /etc/fstab Has this line for the cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 See what you can make of all this, and maybe we can get this system through its finally stages. Thanks Axeios -----Original Message----- From: Ian Truelsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2 On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:17:34 -0500 "Alexander A. Koulouris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Having problem trying to emerge -k kde over the internet. The belnet > site, seems to halt the system and I can not complete the install. I > want to mount my cdrom so that I can install from the CD2 containing > all the packages. I have performed a gentoo install with stage3+grp > (snapshot) so now I want to install the kde, gnome, koffice, etc. > > I cant seem to get the cd to mount. > A little more info would be helpful. Where are you in the install process? Is the livecd still mounted? Are you in the chroot shell? If this is a finished install, do you have an entry in fstab to support the mount /mnt/cdrom? What error are you getting when you try to mount the cd? Try this: mkdir /mnt/cdrom (should be there, but best to be sure) mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom This should mount the cdrom for you. Any error messages should give you an idea of where the problem is. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org Signature key (742B740D) available at pgp.mit.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
