Dave wrote:
> what happens when you type:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt
mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
> and "fdisk /dev/hda"
You will not be able to write the partition table.
Unable to read /dev/hda
> or "fsck /dev/hda"
Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while trying to open /dev/hda
Could this be a zero-length partition?
> > HITACHI CDR-8435
> so it's an IDE cd writer then?
No, just a CD.
Aaron wrote:
> I remember reading somewhere that CD-Roms on certain motherboards have
> to be on the secondry controller else they wont work.
This CD was working fine for about a year under 6.1, and I can boot off
the CD so the hardware is fine. Upgrading to 6.9 caused the problem.
I suspect that I will have to unwind the 6.9 changes back to something
like
6.2 (though I've been considering Debian). I suspect that I've got a
pretty
messed up system. I noticed that I have both inetd and xinetd running.
Buggered
if I know which one is answering the network requests and spawing
telnet, ftp
etc. I figure xinetd is the replacement for inetd that uses individual
files
in the inetd.d directory instead of the inetd.conf file. So I suspect my
system is a pretty confused little puppy at this point.
Thanks anyways.
Pete
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