Re: portable cdrom

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Sat, 30 May 1998 01:08:44 +0100 (BST)


Jinpeng Xie wrote:

> I used a portable cdrom to install red hat. I tried to mount this
> cdrom to the machine that is running red hat. When I run mount /mnt/cdrom,
> I get the following error message:
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> I also find /dev/cdrom is linked to hdc. I think I should load driver to kernel,
> but I don't know where I can find driver for this backpack portable cdrom.

/dev/hdc is the third IDE drive (secondary master). If your CD-ROM
isn't an IDE device, then you will need to make the /dev/cdrom symlink
point to the correct device.

See the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for a list of
all of the device files.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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