On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Volker Bauer wrote: > just recieved Debian 1.3.1 and tried to install. I have done it with > loadlin under dos and got no problems until dselect. I don't know how to > go further. If I try to use "access" and then "cdrom", it is asked for a > "block device" and I really didn't find a clue what to put in there. > > If I tried "mounted" and gave in the path to the cd's I got always the > response that "dev/cdrom/stable 386.gz" (or something similar) is not > founded there. I checked the cd's for such a file but didn't found it. > > Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance.
If you have an IDE cdrom, it is probably /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd. The /dev/cdrom device is normally a symbolic link that you would add once you know where your cdrom lives. Do you know what kind of cdrom you have? Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .