RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-20 Thread Irving Frederick
Thanks for all the replies. The problem was as described and subsequently solve. FRED ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com

RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
By any chance do you know to what device is your CD-ROM attached? For exemple, my cd-rom is the slave drive of the first IDE, therefore it is /dev/hdb. The usual IDE device are: /dev/hda: Master of first IDE slot; /dev/hdb: Slave of first IDE slot; /dev/hdc: Master of second IDE slot; /dev/hdd:

RE: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Sorry, I have to fix a typing mistake. To link create a link you should use the ln command not ls. Best wishes, Paulo. -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.D. Student in Applied Math. University of São Paulo - Brazil http://www.ime.usp.br/~rsilva May the code be with you :-)

Re: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

2000-01-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On 18/1/2000 Irving Frederick wrote: I just installed a base potato system using the current disk downloads from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I tried to mount my cdrom drive. I was given an error message to the effect that the cdrom device does not exist. I then went to my /dev