Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
Hmm, I have installed Debian from a machine with both a CDU31A and a CDU33A (the 33A is functionally identical to the 31A). Neither gave me any problems with Debian, although RedHat did have some problems. > It really was a major number of 15. Thanks for the help. So far, only the > Slackware

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
> I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After > typing in "cdu31a=0x340" at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD > drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one, > but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers. Any >

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread Matt Lawrence
At 05:08 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Don Prezioso wrote: >I think the /dev entry you want is /dev/sonycd I have the same kind of >drive, and I didn't need to create the device. Off the wall wild guess, I >think the major number was 15. I can't be sure right now since my Debian >machine is down with a dea

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread Don Prezioso
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After > typing in "cdu31a=0x340" at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD > drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one, > but I don't know the appropri