[ale] Linux Questions (fwd)

[AJS]

James W. Lynch wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:01:46 -0500 (EST)
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> > Hi!
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> >       I just installed slackware(3.0) on my machine using the infomagic CD. I
> > used the mitsumi driver and went through the motions of setup etc. and
> > configured my system completely, installed lilo etc. Now, I boot into
> > linux and it cant see my CD ROM. I put a CD in there and say 'ls \CDROM'
> > and it gives blank!! How do I get it to see the CDROM.
> >
> You have to mount the cdrom drive.  If there isn't a fstab entry,
> try
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /cdrom
> as root.

 I tried it. It says /cdrom is not a block device

cant understand any of this at all. 

I looked in /var/adm/messages . It says this

mcd-0x300,10 . Init failed.

What's this mean? Is it having trouble finding the cdrom, some kind of
irq mismatch?

thanks
ajs


> 
> Be sure /cdrom exists first.

it does.
> Note, Linux uses / not \ for directory separators.
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