P� torsdag, 30 december 2004, skrev Richard S. Crawford: > I'm trying to build a LuMiX box; the distribution comes as a big tar file on > a > CD. I've got Tom's Root Boot on a floppy, and I've used it to hose the NT > partition that was already on the HD, and I've already created my Linux > partitions and my swap partition. I now want to copy the tar file from the > cdrom to /dev/hda1. > > Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to get to the cdrom drive. I > imagine that when I booted the computer, it detected the cdrom drive somehow, > but dmesg reveals nothing about it. I've tried to mount /dev/hdc > through /dev/hde to /cdrom, but I've had no luck. The message I receive is: > > # mount -a > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe > 'insmod > driver'?) > > The relevant entry in /etc/fstab looks like this: > > /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 1 1 > > What am I missing? I've never done an installation like this; these > newfangled distributions like FC3 and even Debian make everything too easy.
Try: - modprobe ide-cd - modprobe cdrom -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system usually rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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