On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:41:39 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Everyting that is needed is compiled into the kernel directly. > > So we need a more detailed description of your problem, now. What > exactly is not working and what is the exact error message (if any) you > get?
Well, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able read the disc from the cdrw drive, but the cdrom drive is odd. Works from fedora, but in Gentoo cycles through: spin up, pause, spin up, forever. Even ctrl-c didn't kill it, had to reboot: arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /dev/cdrw1 /mnt/cdrw1 mount: block device /dev/cdrw1 is write-protected, mounting read-only arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrw1/ total 96 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 224 May 18 2005 README.diskdefines dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 May 22 2005 casper dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 dists dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 doc dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 install dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 18 2005 isolinux -r--r--r-- 1 root root 77207 Apr 6 2005 md5sum.txt dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 pics dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 pool dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 preseed dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 6 2005 tools lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 May 16 2005 ubuntu -> . arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # umount /mnt/cdrw1/ arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount -a arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /mnt/cdrw1/ total 0 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 mount: No medium found arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
