Re: CDROM problem

["Craig T. Hancock" <craig.hancock@intellipost.com>]

I thought the standard name for all cdrom devices was /dev/hdc check your
/dev drirectory to see if you have a hdc device and I bet my bottom dollar
that is your cdrom device


Jean-Georges Carbonnier wrote:

> hello,
>
> when I install the latest version of linux (debian) from a CDROM
> eveything works good until it begins with dselect. It ask me for the
> source and I tell it CDROM, after
> it ask me for "the block device type" and it is imposible to go ahead. I
>
> try some things like this:
>     /dev/hdb
> but it say that the kernel do not support the iso9660 norm. I do not
> understand because it make the all instalation from the CDROM. If I
> execute a shell I can't mount the CDROM and it tell me the same thing
> about the iso norm even if I mount it with the next command:
>     mount /dev/hdb -t iso9660 /cdrom
> Last year with the same computer I could install an older version of
> debian. Now I can't install the same version. The only thing that difers
>
> from before is that I have install a CDROM writer.
> I have a pentium 166MMX.
>
> Notes:
> - I can install the latest version of RED HAT and after I can mount
> perfectly the CDROM but I prefer to install the Debian distribution.
> - Somebody told me that probably the iso9660 file system is configured
> as a module but I couldn't do anything wiyh the insmod command. May be I
>
> don't do it well.
>
> Thanks a lot.