VS: CDROM / apt-get problems
> I have two cdrom drives: a compaq dvd rom, philips cdr
> while trying to install debain potato, i can install the base
> system sucessfully using either of the cd drives but when it
> comes to the apt-get program thet program informs me that it
> cannot automatically locate the cdrom drive(s) and to specify
> the location of the device file.....why is this? I can log
> into to system but cannot mount either of the drives as root
> and there is no mention of the in fstab all tho both appear
> in boot info screen as hdc and hdd any ideas?
You should check out that /etc/fstab contains correct
device-information.
You may do symlinks for both of your drives, ie.
% cd /dev
% ln -s hdc cdrom
% ln -s hdd dvdrom
And then you may include both in /etc/fstab. There must be a directories
for mount-points, ie. /cdrom and /dvdrom (% mkdir /cdrom ; mkdir
/dvdrom)
and then you should have following lines in /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdrom /dvdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
and you may do your own configurations for automounting etc. (% man
fstab).
Well, you do have CD-burner. You should use generic SCSI-support and you
have
to append SCSI-emulation to your bootloader if you want to use your
burner
under linux, for cd-burning of course. With SCSI-emulation, that
CD-burner
became SCSI-cdrom, /dev/sr0.
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