RE: CDROM issue

1999-03-08 Thread Stuart
Thanks to Bob Nielsen, Jorg Schuler and R Garth Wood. Your suggestions were right on. :) Stuart Ponder

Re: CDROM issue

1999-03-08 Thread R Garth Wood
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: Seeing a few posts on cdrom detection I made a quick script to detect cdroms. It works for me :> . itactics.itactics.com/~rgwood/detect_cdrom.c compile with $ gcc detect_cdrom.c you must be root, but then, you knew that. Let me know how it works with scsi.

Re: CDROM issue

1999-03-07 Thread Jorg Schuler
> > Running dselect to install app packages from CDROM queries "enter block > > device name []: " > > > > We can't figure out which device name to use. Also, mount doesn't show > > the cdrom (as being mounted). Can't determine which mount arguments work > > with our cdrom. > > This is [probab

Re: CDROM issue

1999-03-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Stuart wrote: > I'm a Linux newbie and could use some help. > > I'm installing Debian 2.0 on a 486 with Phoenix Bios and have a much newer > newmax 32X CDROM. > > So far, we have the Kernel installed and have a prompt. We installed by > making a floppy image of resc1440 from