RE: Installation
On my box, at any rate, the /dev/scd0 means the first scsi cdrom. Has been
that since I first put it on there. I suppose that I could be other scd#'s,
since I'm just going by what my box says.
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent West [SMTP:kent.west@infotech.acu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 4:52 PM
> To: rlorin@mindspring.com; Dan Willard; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installation
>
> At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, rlorin@mindspring.com wrote:
> >Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was
> something
> >like "can not mount cdrom /dev/scd0 is not a block device. What is a
> block
> >device anyway
>
> A block device is a device that reads/writes data in chunks, like a hard
> drive or CDROM; a character device is a device that reads/writes data one
> character at a time, like a keyboard or (I believe) a printer.
>
> All devices have "names"; you're first IDE hard drive is /dev/hda and your
> second IDE hard drive is /dev/hdb, etc. The first partition on the first
> IDE drive is /dev/hda1 and the second partition would be /dev/hda2, etc.
>
> An IDE cdrom usually is the Master on the second IDE port, so it would be
> /dev/hdc (if it were the slave on the second IDE port it would be
> /dev/hdd,
> etc).
>
> Since you apparently have SCSI devices, these "names" don't really fit in
> your situation. Instead, the breakdown would look more like:
> First drive = /dev/sda
> first partition on first drive = /dev/sda1
> Second drive=/dev/sdb
> 3rd partition on second drive = /dev/sdb3
>
> Since I've never worked with a SCSI CDROM, I can't really give you any
> real
> answers, but you might try, as root, a command like:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc /cdrom
> where "-t is09660" means that this is a cdrom file system, and "/cdrom" is
> an existing directory on your linux box that serves as a "mount point" for
> mounting the cdrom drive. The "/dev/sdc" assumes that the drive is the
> third device on the SCSI chain (I think), so if it's not the 3rd device,
> modify the "c" part accordingly. I'm pretty sure you do NOT want
> "/dev/scd0", because the "0" would (I would think) mean the 0th partition.
>
> Hope I'm not just spewing bad info left and right....
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