"Beth Lewis" wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I've been lurking on this list for ages and you seem a very friendly >bunch <grin>, so I hope someone can help me with what is obviously >a very newbie question. >I am loading Debian 1.3.1 for the first time, and I get: > >"Insert the CD_ROM and enter the block device name []: > Can >someone tell me what it wants to know? What did I do wrong?
I don't know that you did anything wrong... The block device is a filesystem pointer to the device driver that will operate the CD drive. It will look like /dev/... Precisely what it is, depends on what kind of CD drive you have. If you have an IDE CD drive, it will be one of these: 1st interface, master (unlikely): /dev/hda 1st interface, slave: /dev/hdb 2nd interface, master: /dev/hdc 2nd interface, slave: /dev/hdd If you have a SCSI CD drive: /dev/sr0 If you have a CD drive connected to a sound card, ask again with more details. One last point: your clock is wrong. Your message said it was sent at 15:01 one hour ahead of GMT; that should be 11 hours ahead. You appear to be running in the wrong timezone. Use tzconfig to correct this. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ========= A message for Easter ========= God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He who believes in him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation: that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:17-19) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
