Fallen Angel wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been installing Debian 3.0 (not sure exactly which release) > and I have experienced some problems ... these occurred after the > first installation restart. > > It may be my system though neither Windows nor SuSE Linux have any > real problems with it ... being a computer freak my system is arguably > a little more complex than the average user. The following is what it is: > > CPU: P4/1.7 > > Motherboard: ASUS P4E with Promise Raid Lite & Sound > > Memory: 512Kb/PC133 > > Video: ABit Siluro (nVidia GeForce2 64Mb AGP) > > Storage: Array 1: 10Gb, single disk (/dev/ataraid/dp0) > > Array 2: 60Gb, two disks (/dev/ataraid/dp1) > > LS120 > > ZIP 100 > > Liteon DVD > > Conventioanl CD > > Network: Compaq/Intel EPro100 > > Other: Hauppage PCI TV Card. > > During pre-reboot install it correctly identified the DVD drive as the > source (/dev/cdrom) but after reboot (where it asks whether you want > to update or whatever by FTP/HTTP/CDROM etc.) it doesn't accept this > (/dev/cdrom) as the CDROM. I would have tried putting it in the other > CD but that's not a DVD and my source is. I've tried a number of other > sources (guesses) i.e. /dev/cdrom1, .../cdroms, .../ dvd, .../media, > .../dvdrom and the same but using /mnt in place of /dev with no luck. >
/dev/cdrom is usually a symlink to the actual device file. I'm unfamiliar with the typical setup of an ATA Raid capable motherboard, but on a standard IDE motherboard, typically the CDROM would be the master drive on the secondary IDE port, in which case it'd be accessed via /dev/hdc (/dev/hda for master on primary, /hdb for slave on primary, and /hdd for slave on secondary). It may be that the installation routine symlinks the /cdrom name during installation, but fails to set it up for normal use. Assuming /dev/hdc is where your drive is, you can symlink it with "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom", and then access it via /dev/cdrom. /mnt is where the CDROM would get mounted to (e.g. "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt"; then "ls /mnt" would show contents of CD). The output of "dmesg" soon after a boot might give you some indication of where the CDROM/DVD drive is. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
