Re: wheezy upgrade: apt-get wants squeeze CD but fails to recognise drive

[arbeit32]

Hi Andrei.

Firstly, thank you very much for your kind reply. Please accept my apologies 
for taking to long to get back to you - I was unable to connect to the Net with 
my other PC until now due to entirely unconnected other issues. 

I checked the items you asked about: yes there is a /dev/cdrom which is 
symlinked to /dev/sr0, and the fstab line read:

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

I then altered the fstab as you suggested, to read:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

I then restarted the apt-get dist-upgrade. This time, it was able to read the 
CD first time and is now proceeding with the upgrade. :)))

It therefore seems as though you have hit the nail precisely on the head and 
solved my problem at a stroke! Assuming it continues as well as it's going 
right now, I should have as excellent a wheezy installation as my old squeeze. 
:))

You guys are the best, and may I also say that I have previously used both 
Fedora and Mandriva, and for in my humble but always outspoken opinion, Debian 
is superior in every way.

Hopefully I won't need to trouble you again, but if you need anything from me 
to investigate further, don't hesitate to let me know.

Best regards and thanks again,

Steve


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Re: wheezy upgrade: apt-get wants squeeze CD but fails to recognise drive

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Du, 02 iun 13, 07:21:44, arbei...@gmail.com wrote:
> 3. Checked /etc/fstab: yes, there is a /media/cdrom in there.

Please post the complete line

> 4. Checked /dev: no, there is no /dev/scd0 in there.

The device name might be different. Do you have a /dev/cdrom? It should
be symlinked to the correct device (possibly /dev/sr0 or so).

If you still can't identify it post the output of 'ls /dev/s*'

> 2. Shouldn't there be a /dev/scd0 for udevd to symlink link with 
> /media/cdrom?

/media/cdrom is not symlinked to the device name, it is the mount point.

> 3. If so, then assuming I can just create one, how do I do that?

If the device node is not created automatically then you have other 
problems (possibly hardware), but I suspect the device name has changed.

If I'm correct it should be enough to adjust your fstab to have a line 
like this:

/dev/cdrom  /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0

Kind regards,
Andrei
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