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Re: APT can't find CDROM



On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:16:32PM -0400, Michael Mueller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I booted an Ultra5 from CDROM.  I installed successfully up to section 7.25 
> in the sparc intallation manual, "Configuring APT".  I choose CDROM as the 
> source for APT and the reply was that the CDROM could not be found or the 
> media was unusable.
> 
> The CDROM contained disk1 of 2.2r6 that generated an MD5 sum that matched the 
> value on several mirrors.
> 
> I skipped the APT section.  I choose advanced dselect.  Choose everything.  
> Cleaned up some conflicts. Logged in. Found no "/dev/cd*".
> 
> Any hints on how I can get the CDROM to be seen by the systems?

Ultra5 uses IDE, so you'll probably have /dev/hdc as your CDROM. Do
this:

ln -s hdc /dev/cdrom

That should get you going.

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