Hi guys. Thanks this helped a lot. I also tried modprobe cdrom and guess what - it worked.
I learned a great deal from this one Thanks again. Ragnar W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:56 PM Subject: RE: What's going on > Ragnar Wiencke wrote: > ----------------->>>> > I just installed RH7.2 on a box that I previously had run on RH6.2. I just > added 1 HD and did a server install creating new partitions on both HD's. > Now the nic isn't detected and when I try to mount the CDROM I get the > messages > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > What did I do wrong? > ----------------->>>> > > Just went through this same thing... I configured my NICs by hand (had the > old modules.conf & ifcfg-eth?) What I did was use netconfig to configure my > first NIC and then just copied the newly created ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth1 > and edited that file to the correct settings. > > Prior to working on the NIC stuff I had tried to mount the cdrom, which gave > me the same error. I did the NIC stuff and rebooted a few times and then > when I went back to mounting the cdrom, it worked... prior to the updating > of the system. So I'm not sure what caused it... > > The steps to getting my cards up was: > > 1. edited /etc/modules.conf and added alias for both my cards > 2. modprobe the proper driver... In my case the 3c509 > 3. used netconfig and filled in the proper values. This created > ifcfg-eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts > 4. copied ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth1 in that same directory and edited it > with the proper values > 5. ran system network restart > 6. tested connectivity was good _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
