Re: Installation error.... AGAIN... *sheesh*
Yes,.. I can..... the drive is accessible.
I am getting this error when it dies:
/dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device
/dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device
Then, it dies.
On 19 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> | On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Amanda Shuler wrote:
> |
> | > I'm trying to install Debian 2.0.
> | > I am at the point where it says to "Install operating system kernel and
> | > modules."
> | > It asks you what medium will be used to install the system. I choose
> | > cd-rom on /dev/hda. It is just a normal Atapi drive.
> |
> | Are you sure it's /dev/hda? That would be the C: drive on DOS/Win. I
> | only ask because it seems a bit unusual to put a cdrom there.
>
> Unless Amanda's got an almost all SCSI system and the ATAPI CD is the
> only thing on the IDE bus, otherwise /dev/hda seems odd to me too. I
> have two IDE disks and the ATAPI CD, which is slaved to the second
> disk on my secondary IDE channel and it's /dev/hdc.
>
> The other thing to try, and it's been a LONG time since I've gone
> through the installation process from scratch like this so someone
> correct me if I'm wrong, is to shell out of the installation routine
> and see if you can access the device manually, e.g.,
>
> mount /dev/hda /mnt
>
> or, possibly
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt
>
> and see what happens.
>
> Gary
>
>
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