Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Catie Flick
On 1 Nov, Tonya Winter stumbled around in the dark a bit, turned on the light and wrote: > > One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem to mount the CD > ROM. I have tried many different pieces of advice. The most frequently > suggested being "type mount /dev/hdc/cdrom (or wh

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Jeff Dike
> mount /dev/hdc/cdrom Is this is actual command that you're using? It looks like it's missing a space: mount /dev/hdc /cdrom Will mount the CD regardless of what's in mtab or fstab, assuming that /dev/hdc is the CD drive and /cdrom is available to have something mounted on it. If t

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread RSSri
Is your CD ROM jumper set to master or slave? If the jumper is set to master, change the jumper settings to be slave (your manual should give you information as to how to set the jumper settings). I had the same problem and the LUG (Linux Users Group at Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County) h

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 1-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install,.. by "Tonya Winter"@hotmail.c > One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem > to mount the CD ROM. I have tried many different pieces of > advice http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 describes how to mou

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Ingrid Schupbach
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Tonya Winter wrote: > > One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem to mount the CD > ROM. I have tried many different pieces of advice. The most frequently > suggested being "type mount /dev/hdc/cdrom (or whatever your cdrom is > usually hdc but maybe hdb

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Marie Fischer
Hi! On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Tonya Winter wrote: > One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem to mount the CD > ROM. I have tried many different pieces of advice. The most frequently > suggested being "type mount /dev/hdc/cdrom (or whatever your cdrom is > usually hdc but maybe hd

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, the undead

1999-11-01 Thread Tonya Winter
One of the reasons I wanted to upgrade is that I can't seem to mount the CD ROM. I have tried many different pieces of advice. The most frequently suggested being "type mount /dev/hdc/cdrom (or whatever your cdrom is usually hdc but maybe hdb or ?)" When I type that command in any form I get