On my box, at any rate, the /dev/scd0 means the first scsi cdrom. Has been that since I first put it on there. I suppose that I could be other scd#'s, since I'm just going by what my box says.
--Dano > -----Original Message----- > From: Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dan Willard; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation > > At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was > something > >like "can not mount cdrom /dev/scd0 is not a block device. What is a > block > >device anyway > > A block device is a device that reads/writes data in chunks, like a hard > drive or CDROM; a character device is a device that reads/writes data one > character at a time, like a keyboard or (I believe) a printer. > > All devices have "names"; you're first IDE hard drive is /dev/hda and your > second IDE hard drive is /dev/hdb, etc. The first partition on the first > IDE drive is /dev/hda1 and the second partition would be /dev/hda2, etc. > > An IDE cdrom usually is the Master on the second IDE port, so it would be > /dev/hdc (if it were the slave on the second IDE port it would be > /dev/hdd, > etc). > > Since you apparently have SCSI devices, these "names" don't really fit in > your situation. Instead, the breakdown would look more like: > First drive = /dev/sda > first partition on first drive = /dev/sda1 > Second drive=/dev/sdb > 3rd partition on second drive = /dev/sdb3 > > Since I've never worked with a SCSI CDROM, I can't really give you any > real > answers, but you might try, as root, a command like: > mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc /cdrom > where "-t is09660" means that this is a cdrom file system, and "/cdrom" is > an existing directory on your linux box that serves as a "mount point" for > mounting the cdrom drive. The "/dev/sdc" assumes that the drive is the > third device on the SCSI chain (I think), so if it's not the 3rd device, > modify the "c" part accordingly. I'm pretty sure you do NOT want > "/dev/scd0", because the "0" would (I would think) mean the 0th partition. > > Hope I'm not just spewing bad info left and right....