> I have two cdrom drives: a compaq dvd rom, philips cdr > while trying to install debain potato, i can install the base > system sucessfully using either of the cd drives but when it > comes to the apt-get program thet program informs me that it > cannot automatically locate the cdrom drive(s) and to specify > the location of the device file.....why is this? I can log > into to system but cannot mount either of the drives as root > and there is no mention of the in fstab all tho both appear > in boot info screen as hdc and hdd any ideas?
You should check out that /etc/fstab contains correct device-information. You may do symlinks for both of your drives, ie. % cd /dev % ln -s hdc cdrom % ln -s hdd dvdrom And then you may include both in /etc/fstab. There must be a directories for mount-points, ie. /cdrom and /dvdrom (% mkdir /cdrom ; mkdir /dvdrom) and then you should have following lines in /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvdrom /dvdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 and you may do your own configurations for automounting etc. (% man fstab). Well, you do have CD-burner. You should use generic SCSI-support and you have to append SCSI-emulation to your bootloader if you want to use your burner under linux, for cd-burning of course. With SCSI-emulation, that CD-burner became SCSI-cdrom, /dev/sr0. --sl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
