Re: What is a block device name?
"Beth Lewis" <BethLewis@bigpond.com> writes:
> "Insert the CD_ROM and enter the block device name []:
> Can someone tell me what it wants to know?
If you have a newish home computer, it's probably /dev/hd? where ? is
"b", "c" or "d". Switch to the second console (Alt-F2) and run
`dmesg | more'. There should be a line like:
hdd: FX600T, ATAPI CDROM drive
which means the block device is "/dev/hdd".
For an older CD-ROM, such as a Sony CDU-33A, the block device is
something different (like /dev/sonycd in this case).
> What did I do wrong?
You weren't born psychic. :-)
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