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Re: CD drive not recognised



> I changed my bios to allow CDROM boot and was able to
> begin installation from the CD. The machine will now boot
> from the hard disk, rescue disk etc. and I am now at the apt
> configuration stage, but Linux apparently can't recognise the
> CD drive (although it is mentioned during boot-up). Also I
> couldn't mount the CD during an earlier stage of setup. The
> device seems OK as I have been able to use it for the
> installation thus far and it also worked previously on the same
> machine under Windows. There is obviously a setting I have to
> change, so could you spell out for me what I have to do and
> HOW to do it?

"Where" is your cd-rom drive attached, to the primary controller or
secondary controller ?? Is it a master device or slave device ??
Also, post a copy of your /etc/fstab file...

Hall



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