richard waters wrote:
>
> I had/have a problem with the install of 7.1
>
> I downloaded and burned the 2 disks. I created the cdrom.img bootdisk on a
> floppy.
>
> During boot up if I tried to use my scsi CD-Rom drive with the install CD, the
> install failed with a warning that the CD rom could not be initialized. Also
> the scan of the SCSI controllers failed for the parallel port zip drive.
>
> When I rebooted and put the install CD in my IDE CD-RW the install worked fine.
> Rather than upgrade from 7.0 I did a full install (including reformatting my
> drive).
>
> CDrecord (scanbus) shows the two CD drive. XCDRoast finds them (it shows the
> IDE drive under the scsi devices and the IDE devices. I assume this is due to
> scsi emulation. ) However when I click on the icons on the KDE desktop for CDrom
> or CDrom2, I get KFM errors.
>
> I tried ls and got the following:
> ls -l /dev/cdrom2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 10 17:28 /dev/cdrom2 -> scd0
> ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 10 17:28 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
>
> I think the install got confused by the two drives and did some bad linking.
>
> Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
>
rm -f /dev/cdrom2
ln -s /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom2
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