Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-09 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 05:23 PM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a > cdrom not a hd (i think) No. /dev/cdrom is just a symlink to /dev/hd?.  I'm guessing that the cdrom is n

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a > cdrom not a hd (i think) No. /dev/cdrom is just a symlink to /dev/hd?. I'm guessing that the cdrom is not connected to the slave of the first ide controlle

RE: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Steven Satelle
Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a cdrom not a hd (i think) -Original Message-From: Kevin A Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 06 May 2000 09:58To: Eric G . Miller; debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Re: Accessinf devices after

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 01:22 AM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:19:44AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I don't think it's even "installed" as such. If I tried the above > command for example, I keep getting: > kevin-dsl-212:/cdrom# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hdb1 /cdrom > moun

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:19:44AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I don't think it's even "installed" as such. If I tried the above > command for example, I keep getting: > kevin-dsl-212:/cdrom# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hdb1 /cdrom > mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device Aha! You n

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
At 01:08 AM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:40:55AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I'm pulling hair already. > > I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine > with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM or FLOPPY > drives. >

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:40:55AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > I'm pulling hair already. > > I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine > with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM or FLOPPY > drives. > > I've tried "installing" the drivers via "modconf",

Re: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
Never mind! I Missed that the floppy itself also has to have a valid filesystem before the "mount" will work. I was thinking I just need to get the "device" configured first and then I can worry about formatting! Well, now to my CDROM problem.? At 12:40 AM 5/6/2000 -0700, Kevin A Smith wro

Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Kevin A Smith
I'm pulling hair already. I have debian running on a desktop system now, all working fine with network access - but I cannot access either my CDROM or FLOPPY drives. I've tried "installing" the drivers via "modconf", but my first problem is that my CDROM does not appear to be supported - at