"Carver, Paul, NLSOP" wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on an Ultra Enterprise 1 with a SCSI
> CD-ROM drive.
>
> Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM-5401TASUN4XCD Rev: 1036
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI
> revision: 02
>
> Then it displays the semi-gui "Installation Method" screen. I select 'Local
> CDROM'. It displays the "CDROM type" screen. I select 'SCSI'. It displays
> the error "I could not mount a CD on device /dev/scd0".
>
> Well, duh! The cdrom is /dev/sdb.
>
> How do I tell it that it's using the wrong device?
I'm not 100% sure but I think I remember having falled into
the very same thing because of the SCSI ID (it looked like
some SCSI layer in Linux didn't like a CD-ROM being on
ID 1, in fact it looked like it considered _anything_
on IDs 0 and 1 as _hard disk_).
Well, for myself it was on a PC not a Sparc, but it looks
like your symptoms are the same: look above, it says
"detected scsi disk ...". Also, /dev/sdb is specifically
for _hard disk_ in linux, _not_ for CD-ROM.
Could you try to put your CD-ROM at a higher ID (say, 3 or 4)
just to check ???
--
Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
