Re: Accessinf devices after install...

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote:
> Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a
> cdrom not a hd (i think)

No. /dev/cdrom is just a symlink to /dev/hd?.  I'm guessing that the
cdrom is not connected to the slave of the first ide controller
(/dev/hdb), but rather is the master of the second ide controller,
/dev/hdc.  That's a pretty common configuration. You might check where
your BIOS says it's connected (F2 or something for SETUP at boot).

I'm assuming this isn't a CD-RW (in which case you need ide-scsi support
in the kernel) and isn't a SCSI device.

>     On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:19:44AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote:
>     > I don't think it's even "installed" as such. If I tried the above
>     > command for example, I keep getting:
>     > kevin-dsl-212:/cdrom# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hdb1 /cdrom
>     > mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device
> 
>     Aha! You need to address cdroms as the whole device, no partitions. Try
>     /dev/hdb instead.
> 
> 
>   No change:
> 
>     kevin-dsl-212:/tmp# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hdb /cdrom
>     mount: /dev/hdb is not a valid block device

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