On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 12:37, Brad Camroux wrote: > Apparently the system does see the drive at boot time. Here's a snip > from my 'dmesg' output: > > <SNIP> > hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63 > hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63 > hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > </SNIP>
So the system sees the drive, that's a good thing. > However, I am not able to mount CD-ROMs on this drive. When I try, I > get: > > gandalf:/etc# mount /cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device Did you edit your /etc/inittab? You have to do this to tell the system what device to mount when you issue the command mount /cdrom. Try inserting a data cd and running the command: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom let me know what the output is. > For the record, I'm running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I've not got my > kernel-upgrading boots on to bring in the 2.6 kernel. Can I do that > using apt-get? You should be able to use apt-get to install a new kernel, if one is available. You will just have to make sure that the kernel is installed, rather than upgraded, and that a number of other packages are upgraded so that you can use the 2.6 kernel and all it's features. I'm not sure if testing is using the 2.6 kernel, you might have to upgrade to unstable if you want a system that is built for 2.6, or you could compile it yourself. That being said, the 2.6 kernel is not necessary for using a dvd drive under Linux. > Yes... I do recall your adventures with the Deb. Installer. Did you > manage to have some success with SuSE? Did you get that RAID stuff > figured out? I forgot how much of a pain in the ass Debian was. I hope the new Debian installer in the testing branch is better than the old one. There are lots of things that I like about Debian, but getting it installed and getting everything up and running is a big problem. Sid is supposed to be released in September, so I will give it another try once it becomes stable. I also know that there are some third-party installers, has anyone tried any of these? The Suse install whent well. Hardware detection rocks! I did manage to get RAID going with a fat32 partition, it seems to work now. I also found some information on getting the system to auto-login and run an interactive program. I have not tried it yet, but I will give it a try sometime this week. Here is what I am going to try: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/chung.html there is some information about half way down the page on creating a program called autologinfred that will autologin a regular user. Under that there is some information about getting X to launch automatically, which I will modify for my emulator. Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
