-> I changed the IDE cables in my PC and now the CDROM drive -> is at hdb (primary ide slave), and previously it was hdd -> (secondary IDE slave). -> I did this when I was messing around getting Win95 to install -> properly. -> -> Now, what file do I change in Debian Linux (Slink) to get Linux -> to recognise the CDROM? -> I notice during boot-up that it does find the CDROM, but when I -> try dselect, multi-CD access method, it can't find the CDROM -> any more. ---------------------------------------------------- > when you start deselect use the select access method again, and when it > asks for where the cdrom drive is type /dev/hdb. Unless you tell it, > deselect is using the cdrom at the device address where it last found > it. There is no automatic update of this. (like in windblows).
Aah, Thanks for that! I was just about to post to the list that I *had* updated /etc/fstab already and it didn't work. I'll do what you advise. P.S. It's an interesting story why I changed the cabling. I reinstalled Win95 but couldn't get it to recognise the CDROM and hard drive -- it ran them both in MSDOS compatibility mode. I thought maybe if I put the CDROM as slave on the primary IDE, it would help things. But no. Eventually I discovered that I needed a driver for the motherboard chipset, which I didn't have, the vendor didn't have, but I found the motherboard manufacturer on the Web and got a patch that actually is for a different chipset, but it works. Debian recognised everything. What I liked with Debian is that I was able to *tell* it where the CDROM drive is (hdd) -- Win95 is too darn automated. My experience so far, two systems only, is installing MSWindows from scratch is more difficult than installing Linux. Previous PC, I installed Win95 and RedHat, and Win95 hung during install -- I had to resort to peculiar measures to eventually get it installed -- and I had the motherboard drivers for that one.