On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:35:15PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: > Hi, > I read your article on command-line arguments at boot time and I was > wondering if you or anyone else > out there could perhaps help me out since you seem to be in the know of > this.. > I have installed Debian Linux Version 2.x from floppies. I had no CDRom > Drive at the time of installing. > I bought a Matsushita IDE CDRom. How do I go about telling the kernel > about it. > I tried this, I don't know if it's the right thing to do: > I ran modconf at root, and loaded cdrom module (Common utilities for > CDRom drivers. Loaded > automatically). > > So, now how do I access the CDRom drive? Is it /dev/?
Assuming it is the master drive on the secondary IDE interface, it will be /dev/hdc. This should show up in the boot messages 'dmesg | less'. Typically you mount it to /cdrom, 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom'. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen