[CLUE-Talk] Newbie looking for Linux (Mandrake?) help

[Jeffery Cann]

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Jim,

As a VB programmer, you might want to check out Borland's Kylix product for 
Linux:  http://www.borland.com/kylix

Now, onto the cd rom stuff.

The /dev/cdrom is not a real device.  It is a link to the actual device.  If 
you have a standard cdrom (ATAPI), then the cdrom is one of these devices 
/dev/hda
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdc
/dev/hdb

Check that your /dev/cdrom link is pointed to the correct hd device.  In my 
case, my /dev/cdrom link is set to /dev/hdc.

$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Nov 28  1999 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

It could be that during installation of Mandrake (I am guessing) that the 
install program either did not set the link between /dev/cdrom and your cdrom 
device or set it incorrectly.

Check that out and let us know if it worked!
Jeff

P.S.  Your system clock shows that you are operating in 1997!


On Thursday 17 July 1997 16:03, Jim Hodgers wrote:
> I need help!!
>
> I am a relative newcomer to Linux. I live in Buena Vista, Colorado, and
> there are no Linux guru's around to help me. I am a Visual Basic programmer
> who wanted to see what the "buzz" about Linux was about. I made another
> system as follows:
> Asus P5 with K6-2 350 and 64Megs
> 6.4 G Hard drive
> 40X CDROM
> 3.5" floppy
> External Modem
>
> I got disks for Mandrake 7.2 and started to install.The first CDROM
> installed fine but when it asked for the second disk, it would not
> recognise it. The install finished just fine without the second disk and
> everything seems to work, including  DUN and sound. However I can't access
> the CD. I would get "You do not have permission for this device" from root.
> Following a suggestion on the Mandrake user site, I changed the fstab from
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> to
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> and when I try to mount with "mount /mnt/cdom" I get
> "/dev/cdrom is not a block device".
> CD Player indicates the disk is ejected all the time. I know the drive
> works because I installed Linux from it!!
>
> I could sure use some knowledgeable advise!!
>
> Jim (Wish you guys were closer) Hodgers
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