Eric, does /dev/cdrom point to /dev/hdsomething like this?
[john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 May 30 21:31 /dev/cdrom
- hdc [john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
brw---1 john cdrom 22, 0 Apr 14 21:06 /dev/hdc
I have Mandrake 8.0 installed. I installed from the CDs and booted
from floppy.
But now that I'm running Mandrake, I can't seem to mount any of my
two CD drives or my floppy drive.
All the drives are recognized at boot.
But I keep getting the error:
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
Just to install mandrake 8 I had to find one of the alternate
CDimages that would work - just booting from the CD or the other
floppy images resulted in a hang shortly after the initial welcome
screen where you press F1 or Enter - no matter what option I tried
everything locked up. But
Question for the list: Are the disks on ebay copies of downloaded
CDs do you suppose? Can you sell copies of a distribution that you
get for free? I know you can build your own distro if you know how,
but is it legal to sell copies of a distro?
As for the question of buying the powerpack
a direct donation -- see the
Mandrake site for details.)
-- Carroll
Eric Lauritzen wrote:
Question for the list: Are the disks on ebay copies of
downloaded CDs do you suppose? Can you sell copies of a
distribution that you get for free? I know you can build your
own distro if you know how
Thats the trouble though, - can't install Mandrake 8 because it
hangs on bootup... So far nothing has worked. Every other distro
has worked on this laptop so far..
If you've already tried this forgive me, I've missed a lot of mail
due to my own technical problems.
I had a problem with my
On the box it says Mandrake 8 has 2.4.3 but on the control panel it
says release 2.2.16-22 Do I need to compile if I want 2.4?
Thanks,
Eric
On Saturday 02 June 2001 15:02, you wrote:
On Saturday 02 June 2001 14:15, Eric Lauritzen wrote:
On the box it says Mandrake 8 has 2.4.3 but on the control panel
it says release 2.2.16-22 Do I need to compile if I want 2.4?
Did you do an upgrade?
No, I did a install.
I hope this is an easy/dumb question.
First, doesn LM8 when it's installed need configuration to make CDs
and floppys able to mount? With RH7 I didn't have to do anything but
stick a CD in and I could browse it. There were icons for the CD
drives and floppy drive and I simply had to click
On Mon, 28 May 2001, you wrote:
I know this might sound like a winders type of solutition,,,
first step is to go into Bios, and turn off (set to NO) Plug and pray
aware
OS,
Did that... tried it both ways.
and turn off any bios level virus protection,
don't see any
if that was allready
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From: Eric Lauritzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 7:04 PM
Subject: [newbie] install problem again
On Mon, 28 May 2001, you wrote:
I know this might sound like a winders type of solutition,,,
first step is to go into Bios
A ramdisk is sort of like a virtual hard drive that the installer
creates in memory. It creates this so there is a mountable drive for
use during the install process. I believe it boots from this, but I am
not sure. Someone more expert would know better then me. Sometimes it
takes a few
Everyone is probably tired of my email if not filtering it out, but here is
another symptom I see when I try doing a text install - it seldom gets this
far with a linux expert install.
It looks like this:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Uncompressing.
this is where it uaully
A compressed image or ramdisk or something seems to be
causing my computer to lock up during install.
I'm trying to set it up to dual boot with Windows ME.
It always locks up shortly after:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda5
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Uncompressing
with this md5sum file, or just tell
me how to do it? I'm a complete Linux novice, assume I know
nothing.
Greatly appreciative,
Eric Lauritzen
I am now attempting to install from purchased mandrake 8.0 CDs
from the powerpack.
I have a Dell Dimension XPS 266 w/ 196MG Ram. I currenlty have
WinME installed and running.
I initially try booting from the install CD. I get the first splash
screen with the options to hit enter or F1 for
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