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knekten
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 Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 9:33 pm Post subject: CD-Rom/Floppy problems.... |
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I have installed the 1.2-release of gentoo but I have a rather large newbie problem... I can't get my CD-Rom or Floppy-drive to work... I was just wondering if anyone possibly could tell me what I should write in /etc/fstab in order to get them to work?
I know that the CD-Rom is pointing to /dev/cdrom*, but the thing is I have no such directory/file.... Where should I point it, or rather, what should I do?
And what should I do to get my floppy to work?
As you can see I'm in quite some need for help...... =) |
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KiLLaCaT
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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here is how
| Code: | mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/<cdromdrive> /mnt/cdrom
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note: hda is your master dev on IDE1
hdb is your slave dev on IDE1
hdc is your master dev on IDE2
hdd is your slave dev on IDE2
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Have you enabled devfs in your kernel? If this question doesn't make sense, see https://forums.gentoo.org/faq.php#8 and https://forums.gentoo.org/faq.php#9. Did you enable floppy support in your kernel? What kind of CD-ROM is it? SCSI? ATAPI? Did you compile support for it in your kernel?
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knekten
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I belive I did enable all things necessary when I compiled the kernel, though I can't say... I guess I'll make a new install and make SURE that everything needed gets included (including devfs) and then I'll get back here and fire my questions again =) |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:30 am Post subject: |
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You don't need to reinstall in order to rebuild the kernel.
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knekten
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| Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| True, but I want to change the file system on the partitions as well as re-size 'em =) |
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knekten
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| Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Enabled devfs in the kernel and now both the floppy and the cd-rom are up running.... Case solved I guess... :p |
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