Or is it just 'cause us newbies should stay the hell away? :-) Hardware: Pentium III 500 MHz (Katmai) 768 MB PC133 SDRAM Maxtor 60 GB HDD Creative TNT 16 MB Graphics Blaster (NVidia) Sound Blaster Live Value Digital (4.1) A-Bit BX6 Rev2 Liteon 40x CD-ROM Mitsumi CR-4804 TE 4x4x24 CD-RW 10/100 KingMax Macronix MX987x5 (tulip) Samsung SyncMaster 750s (17")
The only rpm installed that wasn't on the download CDs is an updated initscripts (7.02-2mdk) since I couldn't make contact with my ISP's name resolution servers without it. All other software is from the 2 CDs. Got that suggestion by reading this list. :) <edited from my original post on newbie list.> > I have one empty 30 GB (Reiser FS formatted) partition called /store that's > available on hdb (also Maxtor 60 GB). Would that be more appropriate? > Since I'm going to mirror all of cooker it may be useful in future. No longer an empty partition. Full of cooker (all of cooker) as of 5:45 AM MST 20January, 2003. Done because I was unable to update the beta2 install from any source, ftp or install CD. My install is broken in some respect and I don't have a clue how to find the problem so as to file a bug report or fix it. To wit: My CD-ROM is being identified by harddrake as dev/scd0. It's identified by name but the CD-RW isn't shown at all. Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Old device file: /dev/scd0 Floppy format: LITEON CD-ROM LTN403L Media class: cdrom is in no way correct. There's no scsi interface in this box and I clicked no at the installer question. To try to figure out whether it was a hardware problem I booted to another OS on another hard drive and had no trouble. In fact in beta2 fstab has what appears to be correct listings for the CD-ROM and my CD-RW (Mitsumi CR-4804 TE) which is connected and jumpered as slave on the second IDE channel with the LiteOn being master. The only clue I have is this one: Vendor: Intel Corporation Bus: PCI Bus identification: 8086:7111 Location on the bus: 0:7:1 Description: 82371AB PIIX4 IDE Module: unknown Media class: STORAGE_IDE showing a small red box on the (E)IDE/ATA Controllers icon in the hardware list (left) column of the Harddrake GUI. Relevant part of fstab: none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 If I insert the first CD into the cdrom I can browse it, but only if I remember that it's read as "CDROM2." I can't browse any other CD at all. That one is never umounted. I don't know if this is a harddrake problem, a devfs problem, or both. Or urpmi or rpmdrake or a stupid newbie (me).The whole point here is that I can't update or add software through urpmi or Software Manager since the "CD-1 is not enabled" error happens no matter what I do. There is no hardware problem to diagnose. It's gotta be software somehow. "Software Sources" of any kind are ignored or removed. Thanks for any suggestions offered, and I'm sorry I'm such a newbie. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese? -- Charles de Gaulle
