>> The errors you're describing suggest that 1) you're doing something
>> wrong with the mount command or 2) you've made a bad cd (that's not
>> going to work anywhere) or 3) this particular cd rom won't read this
>> particular cd.
>
>1) hm..rule this one out.. mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> can't go wrong with that..I tried to mount it under Linux, havn't try
> to mount it under AIX yet..
make sure you use "-t cdrfs" instead of iso9660 under aix. also the device
on all my (old) rs6000's is /dev/cd0, i think.
obviously, since you have sound, you have a more recent machine than i'm
used to (all of mine are 3+ years old), but the cdroms in all of my machines
are truly the most picky i've ever seen...for the most part, they won't read
non-gold/silver CD's. (blue and green have never worked in any of my true-
blue (ibm) drives)
> well, all I want is to be able to boot a 95 machine that has no linux on
>it. (simplely because I put my cd-r on that machine). does /etc get
>changed? also, how do you put them on a ram disk. (if you can give me a
>reference to look at, that'll be better). how about /lib? any concern on
>that? thanks for your input...
find someone who bought redhat 4.2. it had a "live filesystem" CD which
you could boot off of and run off of. it was a little slow in my 2x drive,
but i bet it would be as quick as a hard drive on a 32x drive...
(if you dont wanna use 4.2, you could at least take a hint from their
startup scripts. i think they only mounted /tmp on a ramdisk.../etc|/var
aren't really required on a system like that...syslog, sshd, etc prolly
wont be running needing to write files in those directories).
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