Hi, Thanks everyone for your help so far. I was able to get the cdrom module installed by using modconf. Now, however, I can't get the cdrom to mount, and the archives and howtos are of no help. Using the normal mount command, I get "special device does not exist" or "sonycd is not a block device", basically no matter what. The same thing happens when trying to install applications from dselect: nothing I type in is recognized as a block device. This is on a 486 with a Sony CDU33A cdrom. Using lsmod the device driver for the cdrom does show up. Any tips/strategies? Thank you!
Best Wishes, Manu In a message dated 5/3/00 2:48:48 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I mean, which Compact Disc vendor (CheapBytes, O'Rielly, etc.). It's O'Reilly. > I was able to successfully install and configure the base system by using > floppies (I needed the drivers disk and the 8 base 14 floppies). However, no > module worked for my CD-ROM drive. The closest one was the Sony CDU31A, but > it didn't work (I got a "device in use" and two syntax error messages). Does > anyone have any suggestions for how to get the system to recognize the CD-ROM > drive now? That is the correct driver, it works for both cdu31a and cdu33a using /dev/sonycd. As root: "lsmod" will tell you if the sonycd.o module is already installed, if "grep sonycd /boot/System.map*" gets lot of hits then the driver is compiled into the kernel. >>