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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