[ale] Linux Questions (fwd)

[Geoffrey Myers]

}James W. Lynch wrote:
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}> > From ale-owner at cc.gatech.edu  Tue Nov 12 16:21:18 1996
}> > From: gregh at cc.gatech.edu (Greg Hankins)
}> > Subject: [ale] Linux Questions (fwd)
}> > To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
}> > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:01:46 -0500 (EST)
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}> > Hi!
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}> >       I just installed slackware(3.0) on my machine using the infomagic CD. I
}> > used the mitsumi driver and went through the motions of setup etc. and
}> > configured my system completely, installed lilo etc. Now, I boot into
}> > linux and it cant see my CD ROM. I put a CD in there and say 'ls \CDROM'
}> > and it gives blank!! How do I get it to see the CDROM.

I had a similar problem with I loaded Linux here.  I had to add the following
to my lilo config:

append="hdd=cdrom"

Now my box has 4 IDE ports and the above says my cdrom is on the 4th one,
or the second one of the second pair.  My is a mitsumi also.  Hope that
helps.  By the way, before I did this, I got the same (misleading) 'not
a block device error.

}> >
}> You have to mount the cdrom drive.  If there isn't a fstab entry,
}> try
}> mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /cdrom
}> as root.
}
} I tried it. It says /cdrom is not a block device
}
}cant understand any of this at all. 
}
}I looked in /var/adm/messages . It says this
}
}mcd-0x300,10 . Init failed.
}
}What's this mean? Is it having trouble finding the cdrom, some kind of
}irq mismatch?
}
}thanks
}ajs
}
}
}> 
}> Be sure /cdrom exists first.
}
}it does.
}> Note, Linux uses / not \ for directory separators.
}> 
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