On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stephen Newey wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is your answer, but I've had similar problems
> before on certain hardware, if the there's a gap in the IDE chain, i.e.
> you've got hda as your hard disk and hdc as you CDROM, Linux can
> sometimes have trouble accessing it properly. Try taking out the gap
> between devices by putting the CD-ROM as hdb, I'm new at this so I'm not
> sure if it's the answer or not. And this is posted from Outlook because
> I'm from work.
Are you sure ? I never heard about that being a problem.
Frank
>
> Stephen.
>
> > I have already done that, i was trying to install from both the
> > directories on a CD-ROM (/mnt/cdrom/blah/blah) and my /tmp dir. And
> > the
> > bar did not move either time. So i have to use the 'rpm -i
> > package.rpm'
> > method. Could there be another explanation? Does it matter that my
> > /tmp
> > dir is physically a different hard drive than the rest of my linux
> > install?
> >
> > John Roberts
> >
> >
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