On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
>
> Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see
> what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you
> through supermount.
>
> John
i went into mandrake control center and copied this info
Bus: SCSI
Location on the bus: 0:0:0
Drive capacity: burner
Channel: 00
New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
Old device file: /dev/scd0
Floppy format: IDE-CD R/RW 8x4x32
Media class: cdrom
if i right click on the cd-rom icon on the desktop, it lists location as
/ (devices)
i have all EIDE connections, no SCSI connections, although what i was told
before was that linux sees most of this stuff as SCSI even if it is EIDE.
If i go into "mount points" in the mandrake control center, when i click on
the cd/dvd, it gives me this info
Mount point: /mnt/cdrom
Device: scd0
Type: auto
Options: supermount,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0
now, here's another thing......when i was installing md9.1 on this machine, it
got to where it started reading off the cd (had to use boot floppy to get
install done), then it'd tell me it couldn't access a cd in my drive. i'd
let it try a few times, then i told it to use another method to access the
cd. i think it was ide.cd, i'm not sure, either that or it was
iso.something. i figure i might've made a mistake with it there.
anyway, it's a cd-rw drive, and isn't working properly. i havn't tested my
floppy drive to see if it gives me the same problems, pretty much because i
never use the floppy drive, and reason 2 being i don't want to hard crash the
system again. hard crash bad, hard crash bad....
This is what's in the lilo under the Expert tab
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image="/boot/vmlinuz"
label="linux"
root="/dev/hda5"
initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
i hope i've given enough info to get started on this problem. if i need to
get info from elsewhere, can i have a step by step instruction please?
wishing that "learn mandrake in 24 hours" book had shown up already....sure
could use it right now! also need to go back out and find 2 other books,
Running Linux 3rd edition and Linux in a Nutshell 3rd edition. I think i saw
them in a local bookstore. anyway, thanks to anyone that can help!
Mike
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