On 2008-08-23, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I tell the minimal install where the CDROM is? > > It apparently goes out trying to mount anything and everything > looking for the CD, and the first time it finds something that > isn't a valid filesystem, it hangs. First it hung trying to > mount hda1 (an empty partittion). > > So, I booted Knoppix and created filesystems and a swap > partition on hda. Now, when it gets to hda2 (the swap > partition), it hangs trying to mount that. > > Since when could hda1 or hda2 be a CDROM?
Never mind. If you wait several minutes, it will eventually give up trying to mount a non-filesystem and move on. Odd, it didn't used to take 3-4 minutes for a mount to fail like that.
