Re: Newbie: Installation problems
On %M 0, Sudhir P wrote
> Hi,
>
> Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not
> being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have
> tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now).
>
> My present set up:
> ------------------
> I have an i586 system in which I have dos, linux (Redhat and Debian)
> installed (after lot of goof-ups and struggles, being a novice that I
> am).
>
> The partition details are as follows
> /dev/hda1 - DOS
> /dev/hda2 - Linux partition (I suppose, I am not very confortable with
> this naming
> convention, so please excuse me)
> /dev/hda5 - RedHat Linux (kernel - 2.0.36)
> /dev/hda6 - Swap space (common to both Redhat and Debian)
> /dev/hda7 - Debian Linux (kernel - 2.0.36)
>
> The MBR contains the LILO. My lilo.conf in /dev/hda5 (Redhat) contains
> details of the setup, and the details about Debian kernel (being present
> in /dev/hda7, boot-label="debian"). I am assuming that this is where it
> is taking information from when I type "debian" at my lilo prompt, the
> kernel being loaded from /dev/hda7.
>
> Dos (Windows-95) and Redhat are fully operational. There is some problem
> with debian however.
>
> I am not able to go beyond the base-kernel installation. I have
> configured in the kernel to support cd-roms with the "common CD-ROMs"
> option that is available for CD-ROM device drivers.
>
> There is a part of the installation where u have to give details about
> the "access" medium (default being /dev/cdrom). When I accept this as my
> default or even type in "/dev/cdrom", it is reported as an error. It
> says that it is unable to find the device (even though installation is
> going on from the device).
>
> If I go to another virtual-terminal and try: mount /dev/cdrom,
> it gives an error message stating that there is no entry in the
> /etc/fstab. If I make an entry in the same, and issue "mount
> /dev/cdroom", an error message stating that the kernel doesn't support
> this filesystem (iso9660) is issued.
>
> I am unable to go beyond this. No packages are being installed as I
> haven't been able to specify /dev/cdrom as my source.
>
There are several things you should check:
- Does /dev/cdrom actually exist?
- Is it a symlink pointing to your CDROM drive (e.g., -> /dev/hdb)?
- Is isofs module loaded? Can you load it with 'modprobe isofs'?
- Is your entry for /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab correct? It should look
something like
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro 0 0
- Does the mount point listed in /etc/fstab (/cdrom, in the example
above) exist (and is it a directory)?
- Can you mount /dev/cdrom now, after checking the above?
- If so, *and* you were able to load the isofs module manually,
then either add 'isofs' to /etc/modules, or install kerneld.
Hope this helps,
John P.
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