No problem here. The CD drives are working fine.
I am trying to install a 2nd CD. The CD-Burner is recongized during the boot.
Is it a matter of adding it to the fstab?
-Les-
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Scott Fraser wrote:
>
> > I don't suppse there is anyone out my way that has a copy of hail on CD
> > eh? It would appear that the last 3 copies of the ISO I downloaded and
> > burnt to CD here at the office are coasters. hrms....
>
> Is there a problem with the CD-ROM drivers on the Hail distro?
>
> I burned a CD with the Hail distro and started the install.
>
> The new install system was looking good until I got to the point of
> selecting the install source. I selected CD, and it asked me to insert
> the Storm CD. I clicked OK, but it kept asking me for the CD. I tried
> removing it and putting it back, but nothing worked.
>
> Eventually, I selected install via ftp. Some problems (see below),
> but I got it installed.
>
> I have since been unable to mount any CD-ROM:
>
> / # mount -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> /dev/cdrom: Success
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> /dev/cdrom: Read-only file system
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> / # df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 964500 831948 83556 91% /
> /dev/hda3 3059760 2800708 103624 96% /info
>
> / # mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
> ========
>
> Since I have @home, I thought an FTP install this would be relatively
> painless. I went ahead and selected the packages I wanted. It told me I
> needed 770MB. I was installing on a 1GB partitiion, so I went ahead. After
> about 3 hours: Fatal error, disk full. :(
>
> I started again and selected the bare minimum. I got it up and running
> then installed X via apt-get. Great, except that the mouse was not
> recognized. I could not get it going, although it worked fine on the
> console. I tried killing gpm before going into X, but it made no
> difference.
>
> Frustrated, I went back and installed a minimum, but with X window this
> time.
>
> That worked, and I installed everything else by various methods: apt-get,
> dselect, Lynx and Netscape.
>
> --
>
> Chris F.A. Johnson
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