On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Brian D Kellogg wrote: > hello, > > I have the following problems after installing Debian. > > 1. I can't mount the cdrom. > i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. > It's a standard Atapi cdrom.
How are you trying to mount it? It sounds like you're typing mount /cdrom (or something similar), which won't work unless you have information in /etc/fstab telling mount what the filesystem is, etc. try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt where /mnt is an empty directory. I use /cdrom if that works, put a line like #<file system> <mount point> <type> /dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ;ATAPI (IDE) CDROM in your /fstab. (I copied this out of a post about setting up partitions, and I think there's a column missing. do a man fstab to see what you need. then you should be able to mount /cdrom without problems. I forget what /etc/mtab is exactly. > 3. I can't start x > i get this error--x: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed > I have a notebook computer. I know X will work on it because I used to > have SUSE linux on it. Have you run xf86config or XF86Setup? It sounds like you're X server hasn't been configured. Andrew Tarr "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate" |___ http://multinet.co.nz/personalhomepages/locusmeus/antechamber.html |~~~