Yes,.. I can..... the drive is accessible. I am getting this error when it dies:
/dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device /dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device Then, it dies. On 19 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote: > | > | > I'm trying to install Debian 2.0. > | > I am at the point where it says to "Install operating system kernel and > | > modules." > | > It asks you what medium will be used to install the system. I choose > | > cd-rom on /dev/hda. It is just a normal Atapi drive. > | > | Are you sure it's /dev/hda? That would be the C: drive on DOS/Win. I > | only ask because it seems a bit unusual to put a cdrom there. > > Unless Amanda's got an almost all SCSI system and the ATAPI CD is the > only thing on the IDE bus, otherwise /dev/hda seems odd to me too. I > have two IDE disks and the ATAPI CD, which is slaved to the second > disk on my secondary IDE channel and it's /dev/hdc. > > The other thing to try, and it's been a LONG time since I've gone > through the installation process from scratch like this so someone > correct me if I'm wrong, is to shell out of the installation routine > and see if you can access the device manually, e.g., > > mount /dev/hda /mnt > > or, possibly > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt > > and see what happens. > > Gary > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
