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Re: CDROM issue



> > Running dselect to install app packages from CDROM queries "enter block
> > device name []: "
> > 
> > We can't figure out which device name to use.  Also,  mount  doesn't show
> > the cdrom (as being mounted).  Can't determine which mount arguments work
> > with our cdrom.
> 
> This is [probably] an ATAPI IDE device.  Assuming your hard drive is the
> first device on the primary IDE controller (/dev/hda), if the CDROM is the
> slave device on the primary controller it is /dev/hdb.  The master device
> on the secondary controller is /dev/hdc, while the slave device on the
> secondary controller is /dev/hdd. 

Here's what I usually do to find out the devicename:

dmesg |grep hd

It will print out all ide-drives.

Jörg Schuler.
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