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Re: Install problem



On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Volker Bauer wrote:

> just recieved Debian 1.3.1 and tried to install. I have done it with
> loadlin under dos and got no problems until dselect. I don't know how to
> go further. If I try to use "access" and then "cdrom", it is asked for a
> "block device" and I really didn't find a clue what to put in there.
> 
> If I tried "mounted" and gave in the path to the cd's I got always the
> response that "dev/cdrom/stable 386.gz" (or something similar) is not
> founded there. I checked the cd's for such a file but didn't found it. 
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance.

If you have an IDE cdrom, it is probably /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd.
The /dev/cdrom device is normally a symbolic link that you would add once
you know where your cdrom lives.  Do you know what kind of cdrom you have?

Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.



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