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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