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Re: Possible r3 Installation Bug



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* Fallen Angel [Sun, Oct 13 2002, 12:45:01PM]:

> During pre-reboot install it correctly identified the DVD drive as the
> source (/dev/cdrom) but after reboot (where it asks whether you want to
> update or whatever by FTP/HTTP/CDROM etc.) it doesn't accept this
> (/dev/cdrom) as the CDROM. I would have tried putting it in the other CD
> but that's not a DVD and my source is. I've tried a number of other
> sources (guesses) i.e. /dev/cdrom1, .../cdroms, .../ dvd, .../media,
> .../dvdrom and the same but using /mnt in place of /dev with no luck. 
> 
> Any ideas?

Well, try /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc. Open the second console,
login as root, run "dmesg|more" to look which device name has been
assigned to your CDROM drive.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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