On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: Seeing a few posts on cdrom detection I made a quick script to detect cdroms. It works for me :> .
itactics.itactics.com/~rgwood/detect_cdrom.c compile with $ gcc detect_cdrom.c you must be root, but then, you knew that. Let me know how it works with scsi. > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Stuart wrote: > > > I'm a Linux newbie and could use some help. > > > > I'm installing Debian 2.0 on a 486 with Phoenix Bios and have a much newer > > newmax 32X CDROM. > > > > So far, we have the Kernel installed and have a prompt. We installed by > > making a floppy image of resc1440 from the CD and were able to use the CDROM > > to install the "base" files. > > > > Running dselect to install app packages from CDROM queries "enter block > > device name []: " > > > > We can't figure out which device name to use. Also, mount doesn't show > > the cdrom (as being mounted). Can't determine which mount arguments work > > with our cdrom. > > This is [probably] an ATAPI IDE device. Assuming your hard drive is the > first device on the primary IDE controller (/dev/hda), if the CDROM is the > slave device on the primary controller it is /dev/hdb. The master device > on the secondary controller is /dev/hdc, while the slave device on the > secondary controller is /dev/hdd. > > > > > I also don't get how we were able to use the CDROM during install in the > > first place... > > The rescue disk is set up to recognize it and load the correct module. > Dselect needs to know how to address it. > > Bob > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +---------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | R Garth Wood | Lottery: A tax on people who are | | Net Nation Communications Inc. | bad at math. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
