hi. my apologies in advance if any of you have recieved this twice ... (i am experiencing difficulties sending to the list from various different hosts) i was wondering if there was anyone who had experienced problems similar to those that i am experiencing or if anyone might be able to help ... i have just installed red hat 5.0 boxed edition onto my machine at home last weekend (cyrix p166 with 128 meg edo, supermicro p5ste motherboard with 512k cache, panasonic 24x ide cdrom drive (read only), 6.4 gig maxtor drive, matrox 4 meg millenium (pci), soundblaster awe32 (plug_&_pray), usr 33.6 sportster voice internal isa, 21" iiyama 9021 monitor, 9 pin micro$haft compatible mouse.) after accidentally formatting my hard drive and deleting micro$oft win95b there followed a clean install of red hat 5.0 using druid - (during setup i chose metroX and *all* of the packages from the cdrom). (the hard drive was partitioned into several chunks to make things easier to manage.) things seemed to go well -even the xconfigurator setup... until i tried to do (from the root prompt at a text console) startx or xinit. i would then get an immediate blank screen from my text mode (as though the machine was going into a high resolution x display) and then a return to the text mode as thought it had failed to launch me into X. when i tried launching xdm by typing: xdm at the command prompt i get the same blank screen - but it seems to frequency shift my monitor continuously every 1 or 2 seconds. i got a bit scared it might damage my monitor (i could hear the relays inside the monitor clicking as the frequencies were shifting) so i tried ctrl-alt-delete from the keyboard (not knowing if the combination would be detected)... then lo and behold (due to the ctrl-alt-del combimation no doubr) - xdm was launched - using the settings that i had selected in xconfigurator (1600x1200 in 16 bit colour and non interlaced at 75 hz (except that the monitor showed that it was actually 85hz ...!)) anyway xdm was up and running. i left it that way - up and running for a few days now (just in case it didnt do the same thing if i rebooted it !). after i tried to recompile a custom kernel i soon ran into compile problems with some sig11 errors and i soon gave up. i eventually managed to use the mount,umount and eject commands to look at the red-hat cd for docs and src etc. i also found the online documentation via the installed netscape and managed to put together a script to let me dial out and communicate with the outside world. from work, i managed to download the patches in the errata section of red hat and created an iso-9660 (with rockridge extensions) format cd containing all the redhat patches to take home. it seemed to write ok (it was written on an sgi o2 machine running irix 6.3 on a ricoh scsi x2 cd-r writer, i think.) it seemed to mount ok (using the standard irix/indigo desktop media-manager) on a stand alone sgi o2 elsewhere in the office running irix 6.3 and i could look at the files etc. afterthe cd was written fully. i brought the cd home - and tried to mount it at home using linux 5.0 but all to no avail. the system just flatly refuses to recognise the cd. however after this i eject the cd and put the red hat cd back in and the machine sees that no problem. i have tried all the available filesystem types documented in both my /proc/filesystems and also in the man pages for mount. can anyone help me with either the X problem or the cd-rom problem ? is the cd rom problem anything to do with not recognising the volume/index on the cd ? are there any undocumented options that i can use to override the defaults (apart from the ones in the man page regarding -t iso9660) ? is the gui problem to do with the mouse perhaps ? now i know that the cdrom isnt faulty as my irix machine at work can see the data on the cdrom - no problem - verified again this morning and also again on a win95 system with a local cdrom. can anyone shed light on this mysterious behaviour ? here are some more (ir?)-relevant details: ------------- # uname -a Linux sour 2.0.32 #1 Wed Nov 19 00:46:45 EST 1997 i486 unknown # mount -V mount: mount-2.7f # mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda5 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda7 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /var type ext2 (rw) # mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb, or too many mounted file systems # dmesg 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 hdb : tray open or drive not ready hdb: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 hdb : tray open or drive not ready hdb: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 hdb : tray open or drive not ready hdb: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 hdb : tray open or drive not ready hdb: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 hdb : tray open end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 64 hdb: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:40 iso_blknum 16 block 32 hdb : tray open or drive not ready hdb: code: 0x70 key: 0x02 asc: 0x57 ascq: 0x00 # ------------- many thanks in advance. matt. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
