on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:50:21AM -0800, Abner Gershon (abner_gershon@yahoo.com) wrote: > I am trying to install Potato 2.2r3 from CD-rom onto a system with > Gigabyte GA-7DXR main board, 1.4 Athalon processor, two 20 GB hard > drives, and Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32 CD-RW drive. The hard drives > are master and slave on the primary ide controller. The PlexWriter is > on the secondary ide controller. > > I am able to boot to Debian floppy and partition my hard drive and > mount my file system. Then when I try to install the kernal from > CD-rom I get the error "mount failed" Failed to mount CD drive. Is the CDR already mounted? Hit <alt><F2> to go to the second virtual console, hit <return> for a shell, and type "mount" to see what's currently mounted. If the CDR is mounted, type "umount /cdrom" to unmount it. Otherwise, try mounting it manually: $ mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdc /cdrom ...should be what you want. Report *exact* errors here. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
Attachment:
pgpc0KVNryYo0.pgp
Description: PGP signature