Re: CDROM problem

1999-03-15 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
I have been fighting a simular problem. I've traced mine down to the scsi driver probing for devices during boot-up. If the cdrom is found during bootup, the adding of the module will add sr. Most of the time, this new resc1440.bin doesn't find my cdrom. Once booted Press alt+F2 if you need a new t

Re: CDROM problem

1999-03-15 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:27:45 -0600, you wrote: >I thought the standard name for all cdrom devices was /dev/hdc check your >/dev drirectory to see if you have a hdc device and I bet my bottom dollar >that is your cdrom device > the "standard" device for many scsi cdroms is /dev/scd0 for the first

v2.0.10, insmod & /dev/scd0

1999-03-10 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
When I boot from the resc1440.bin that came with v1.3.1, my /dev/scd0 can be mounted iso9660. I have now installed v2.0.10 or 2.0r3, the same thing by labeling, from floppy. I keep getting a hint to `insmod driver`. Someone suggested sr_mod which isn't found. I picked scsi cdrom during module sele

Re: fstab setup

1999-02-28 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
First, make an empty directory somewhere for your new file system to live on top of. If you use an existing directory, everything in that directory will be invisible until you unmount (softwarewise) your new drive. Edit /etc/fstab, any editor. Make a line that looks just like the one for your oth

no cdrom

1999-02-27 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
Any hints for the stpid? I have the linux central official debain 2.0binary i36 cd with kernel 2.0.34. It boots. When I get to the "install kernel..." option, it can't find the cd and hints that I should try iinsmod. "insmod cdrom" doesn't work. I've added a /cdrom directory and "mount -t iso9660

2.0 upgrade after poor cp and repartition

1998-07-19 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
It mostly went well. Thank you for the rescue floppy Only 3 things went badly. The rescue floppy cured whatever it was that I did wrong with lilo. There wasn't anything in /root except the default installed scripts. It would be nice to know where to get another copy of those. The backup of /

Re: its not a dos partition?

1998-07-15 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
Subject: Re: its not a dos partition? Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Martin wrote: Thought I changed that > Dos won't let you create more than one primary partition when one is already > set > 'active' (bootable). Dos's fdisk won't let you set an active primary >