I'm still still trying to get Debian 2.1 to recognize my cdrom so I can install some apps. I've installed Debian 2.1 and upon startup the kernal loads my cdrom device driver fine & returns this message:
mcd=0x320,9: Mitsumi status, type and version: 10 D 2 Double Speed CD ROM Which is cool b/c I have a Mitsumi FX001D drive. Then I've been told (in response to prior questions) to establish a symlink, so I do: ln -s /dev/mcd /dev/cdrom which returns: ln: /dev/cdrom: File exists Here's my first question: does this mean that the command succeeded or failed? Kinda hard to tell since I don't have enough installed to find any help or man pages on ln. In any case, I still can't mount my cdrom. When I do: mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it returns: mount: the kernal does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device. (maybe 'insmod driver'?) I've also tried using /dev/mcd in place of /dev/cdrom, to no avail. I read the CD-ROM HOWTO and its troubleshooting section. I pass Step 3, b/c my kernal does detect the drive upon starting. But Step 4, below fails. Briefly, step 4 is to test if I can read from the drive. I do: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null bs=2048 which returns: dd: /dev/cdrom: Operation not supported by device Where do I go from here? TIA.
