"Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, TODD WITTER wrote:
>
> > Have you tried mounting it like this
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> > I don't know but that may answer some questions.
> > Look at /etc/fstab to see what's in there. If you see a line about
> > the cdrom, post it here and we'll see if we can sort that out.
> > Should be fixable.
>
> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> 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?)
>
> $ grep cdrom /etc/fstab
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>
> > On 12 Dec 00, at 19:22, Bo Green wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > My install from cd of stormix 2.04 worked great,
> > > but ever since the initial install, my cdrom won't
> > > mount. The error message is "wrong fs type, bad
> > > option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many
> > > mounted file systems".
> > > Not much help, as none of these are true.
> > > Any ideas are appreciated.
> > > Bo Green
> > >
> > > PS can't mount manually as root either.
>
> I have a similar problem.
> My computer would boot from the burnt CD, but not be able to mount it.
>
> I sent the following to the list, but there was no response:
>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:08:19 -0400
> From: Chris F.A. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [SLU] Re: [SLT] Install problems]
>
> I don't recommend doing it the way I did, but a description of it might
> be informative, or at least interesting.
>
> I have been running Storm Linux for several months, and was trying to
> install a bunch of software with dselect via ftp. I thought the deb
> files were being downloaded into my larger partition, but they turned
> out to be going into the root partition. As a result, when unpacking the
> debs, it overfilled the root partition and I could do nothing. Any
> command I tried gave me "segmentation fault".
>
> I thought that the simplest remedy would be to re-install (it takes
> about an hour). Unfortunately, my CD had been damaged.
>
> I decided this would be a good opportunity to upgrade to the latest
> release and went to a Win98 machine to download it. After writing the CD
> (and getting to that point is another story), I went back to a real
> computer and got to work.
>
> 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. Since I have @home, I thought
> 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.
>
> Success.
>
> I have since added most of the other packages I want by various methods
> (dselect, apt-get, Lynx and Netscape).
>
> If I had realized that ftp installation was now supported, I'd have
> planned it that way from the start.
>
> I would like to see the installation get the basics and the boot manager
> written to disk before adding optional packages. That way recovery from
> a bad or hung install would be much easier; a program to continue
> installing, by whatever method, could be installed on the HD.
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> _______________________________________________
Hi
If you choose the ftp install,you will have to partition the drive
first,then the installer will download a 32MB(about) file onto the /
partition and proceed from there.Don't forget that the "apt-get way" is:
download packages in /var/cache/apt/archives (not in / ),then unpack
them from there .
It would be nice tough if the installer could restore itself from an
interrupted download ,leving all the configs in place ,at least for the
ftp case.
What you want is the standard Debian install ,where a base system is
installed,
then after reboot you get to choose what you want installed.
Well ,I guess you can ask that next time when/if we'll be asked what
features we want in the next release.
There used to be an email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if I not mistaken where
you could
send requests like this.
--
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
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