Re: HELP: CD install of 1.3.1 with Panasonic 24x
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> From: Daniel Martin <martind@chow.mat.jhu.edu>
> To: Albert Hurd <ahurd@sprint.ca>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: HELP: CD install of 1.3.1 with Panasonic 24x
> Date: Monday, December 01, 1997 7:26 AM
>
Many, many thanks to Daniel Martin and also to Hamish Moffat for
helping me past the problem.
Albert Hurd
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Albert Hurd wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 from CheapBytes disk on a new
computer
> > (and a newbie at Linux) which has a Matshita (Panasonic) CR-585 24x
> > CDRom. At the point in the install where it tries to access the CDRom,
it
> > halts with the error message: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
> > device.
>
> I don't know if this is your problem, but I got the same error installing
> 1.3.1 on a machine because I'd incorrectly specified where the CD drive
> was; I thought it was /dev/hdb when it's really /dev/hdc. Try doing the
> install again directly from CD and once you get past the step where you
> specify your keyboard, hit ALT-F2 to get to a shell screen, and run the
> command
> dmesg | more
> Then look through there for the bit where it detects your hard drive
(this
> will be the bit where it says "hda"), and see if it detects your CD
drive,
> and what device it thinks it is.
>
>
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